uKrainian authorities say the Russian occupation’s administration in Mariupol has shut down the city for quarantine over a possible cholera outbreak.
Petro Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, told Ukrainian TV on Monday that the city is bracing itself for an epidemic as dead bodies and litter are piling up in the city on the Azov Sea.
“The word ‘cholera’ is increasingly heard in the city among local officials and their supervisors,” Mr Andryushchenko, who left Mariupol early on in the war, said, quoting his sources in the city.
“As far as we can see the epidemic has more or less begun already.”
He said, however, that they were aware of isolated cases.
A potential health crisis in Mariupol is exacerbated by the fact that most of the city’s infrastructure has been obliterated by Russian air strikes. There are no health services to speak of, and the city’s remaining 100,000 residents still have no access to running water.
“With the lack of vaccines, even such a thing as an outbreak of dysentery could lead to tens of thousands of deaths,” he warned.
Russian authorities did not report any health emergencies in the area.
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