Earlier in the day, Andrey Abramchenko, the mayor of Izmail, said that over 700 people in the Odessa region had asked for medical aid over intoxication, including 410 children. According to the Ukrainian Emergency Service, the mass disease was presumably caused by a rotavirus in tap water, which spread there after heavy rains.
"There is no official information over the causes and agents, which have led to aggravation of the epidemiological situation. In this regard, an official request has been sent to the World Health Organization. Rospotrebnadzor has taken measures to strengthen the sanitary and quarantine control in respect of persons arriving from Ukraine and monitored the epidemiological situation in the border regions," the statement reads.
According to Abramchenko, the virus has been localized and the dynamics of receiving new patients has started to decrease.
