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Six test positive for cholera in Myanmar commercial hub
Agence France-Presse . Yangon, Myanmar
08 July, 2024, 19:24
Six people in Myanmar’s biggest city have tested positive for cholera, a junta spokesman said on Saturday, adding it had ordered the temporary closure of restaurants in the area.
Nine people living in a ‘squatter ward’ in the commercial hub of Yangon were hospitalised for severe diarrhoea and one later tested positive for cholera, according to spokesman Zaw Min Tun.
There were only 12 shared toilets for the settlement home to more than 600 people, he said.
Subsequent tests at two hospitals in Yangon found five other cholera cases...
Six test positive for cholera in Myanmar commercial hub
Agence France-Presse . Yangon, Myanmar
08 July, 2024, 19:24
Six people in Myanmar’s biggest city have tested positive for cholera, a junta spokesman said on Saturday, adding it had ordered the temporary closure of restaurants in the area.
Nine people living in a ‘squatter ward’ in the commercial hub of Yangon were hospitalised for severe diarrhoea and one later tested positive for cholera, according to spokesman Zaw Min Tun.
There were only 12 shared toilets for the settlement home to more than 600 people, he said.
Subsequent tests at two hospitals in Yangon found five other cholera cases...