Rospotrebnadzor issued a decree on measures to prevent cholera. The day before, the mayor of Mariupol warned of a possible cholera epidemic in the city

Rospotrebnadzor issued a decree on additional measures for the prevention of cholera in order to prevent its importation into Russia. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

According to the resolution, it will be necessary to strengthen control over the laboratory study of wastewater, work out interagency cooperation in the event of a cholera outbreak, and take additional measures to ensure stocks of diagnostic tools and reagents.

Rospotrebnadzor instructed regional departments, governors and ministries of health to assess the readiness of the regions for a cholera outbreak, including “to ensure readiness for the transition to a strict anti-epidemic regime in infectious diseases hospitals”, and to equip laboratories with equipment.

Earlier Thursday, Mariupol Mayor Vadim Boychenko warned of the danger of outbreaks of cholera, dysentery and E. coli due to unsanitary conditions in the city.

“Already now the air temperature reaches 20 degrees. Powerful and deadly epidemics may soon break out due to the lack of centralized water supply and sewerage, the decomposition of thousands of corpses under the rubble, the catastrophic shortage of drinking water and food, ”Boichenko said.

Mariupol is a large city located in the south of the Donetsk region of Ukraine, on the northern coast of the Sea of ​​Azov. It was surrounded by Russian troops in the first days of the war. The city is actually under blockade. as a result of hostilities . could have died The mayor of the city, Vadim Boychenko, said that at least 10,000 local residents

On April 21, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to Vladimir Putin on the capture of Mariupol. Putin called the assault on the Azovstal industrial zone "unreasonable" and ordered it to be cancelled. However, according to Ukrainian media reports, skirmishes and local battles continued in the city.