The chief medical officer of Mariupol, Donetsk region, Heorhiy Husakov, said on Sunday that two more people were diagnosed with cholera in the city, the press service of Mariupol City Council reported.
Most likely the patients got the infection as a result of contact with industrial water, which comes from Pavlopolske water storage facility, according to the participants of an enlarged meeting of the city council dedicated to cholera prevention.
"The patients are employees of the OJSC Azovobschemash and private JSC Azovelectrostal. Therefore, a set of measures has been developed for all the major industrial enterprises of the city to limit contact of their personnel with process water, to provide bottled drinking water, and ensure the availability of detergents in sanitary rooms," the press service said.
According to Mariupol City Council’s medical official, four cholera patients and three vibrio carriers remain in the city’s hospital.
Seven people were in the isolation ward at the time of the report.
