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The Ukrainian Health Ministry has confirmed a fourth case of cholera in Mariupol (Donetsk region), and the condition of this patient is moderately serious, the ministry's press service reported on Tuesday.

Ukraine’s chief state sanitary doctor, Serhiy Ryzhenko, together with the chief state sanitary doctor of Mariupol, Heorhiy Husakov, inspected the infectious diseases hospital where the patients with cholera are being treated.

The patients are receiving the necessary medical assistance on time and in full, the ministry’s press service

Ryzhenko demanded the laboratory testing of samples from around the area be carried out in order to discover the source of the cholera outbreak.

Experienced experts from Simferopol and Mykolaiv have arrived in Mariupol to provide practical assistance.

Earlier Emergencies Ministry has said that the cholera outbreak in Mariupol is now under control.

"Everything is under control there," First Deputy Emergencies Minister Mykhailo Bolotskykh said during a telephone hotline press conference in Kyiv on Tuesday.

He said that Emergencies Minister Viktor Baloha on Monday decided to send a working group to Mariupol to assist Health Ministry officials and the local authorities.

The chief of the Emergencies Ministry’s medical department, Petro Voliansky, said that there were three registered cases of cholera.

The results of laboratory tests on a fourth person are expected on Tuesday, he added.

Steps have already been taken to introduce a ban on catching and cooking fish, as well as to temporary close beaches in Mariupol, he said.

"The condition of the patients is currently normal," Voliansky said.

Media reported that the diagnosis of cholera had been confirmed in four people in Mariupol and that the situation with six people who were in contact with them was currently being studied.

At the same time Crimea’s chief state sanitary doctor Natalia Penkovska has said that the epidemiological situation in Crimea is favorable, and no outbreaks of disease have been registered on the peninsula.

"The situation in Crimea is favorable, and no epidemic complications were reported in Crimea," said she told Interfax-Ukraine on Tuesday.

Penkovska noted that "a number of measures are being taken in Crimea to prevent outbreaks of diseases."

In particular, she said laboratory tests of people with intestinal infections were being conducted in line with the current regulations, and that other tests for the presence of disease in Crimea were being carried out.

Penkovska said that such measures were taken in Crimea every year, regardless of whether there were outbreaks of disease in other regions in Ukraine.

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