"Epidemic Has Started": Mariupol Mayor’s Adviser Reported that City Is Placed under Lockdown
Several single cases of contagious diseases have been documented.
Петро Андрющенко
Several single cases of contagious diseases in Mariupol may indicate the onset of a new outbreak.
Petro Andriushchenko, the Adviser to the Mayor of Mariupol, warned about the first wave of a new outbreak in the city.
During the early June, Mariupol located at the coast of the Sea of Azov usually faces natural cholera outbreaks. These outbreaks have been mostly minor and easy to manage during the peaceful times, but not this year, when the city is under chaotic rule of the Russian invaders.
“The contagious agents easily contaminate the marine environment and reach the water intakes, which supply the city. Add here multiple shallow graves and rotting waste on the streets, and you get a pretty expected outcome. The water, the sea, the potable water sources are getting contaminated, and the risk of contagious disease outbreaks becomes critical to that point that we have already documented several single cases. We rely only on the data we can access under the given conditions, but even those data are sufficient to claim that the outbreak has already started”, Andriushchenko said.
The Adviser also reported sudden and massive death of sea fish, which is unusual during the summer season without extremely high temperatures.
“It’s pretty difficult to determine the cause of death, but we definitely observe a trend towards increased mortality. Everything indicates that now Mariupol is basically going through the first phase of the outbreak. Our local administrative sources confirm that the invaders have put the city under lockdown. Currently it’s a “soft” version of the lockdown, which is rather a bureaucratic formality. However, I suppose that even the Russians have already realized that they are dealing with outbreak”, he explained.
As for the exact nature of a new disease, Andriushchenko speculated that this might be either cholera or more common dysentery, or even just any viral gastrointestinal infection.
“All these outbreaks may be easily caused by the poor hygiene. However, the worst thing is that under the given conditions of complete healthcare system failure, shortage of medicines, no access to qualified laboratories, lack of vaccines and other routine essential supplies, even such a simple thing as dysentery outbreak may result in many thousand lethal cases. You don’t even need to wait for cholera season to start. Although if the cholera comes into play, the death toll will be very difficult to count”, Andriushchenko added.
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