TASHKENT, Jul 26 (NNN-XINHUA) – No cholera cases have been registered in Uzbekistan, and reports that the disease may have entered from neighbouring Afghanistan are unfounded, a Uzbek health official said, yesterday.
“The information suggesting cholera entering Uzbekistan from Afghanistan is completely false, no cholera disease detected in our country,” Nurmat Atabekod, deputy head of the Uzbek Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service, said in a statement.
Uzbekistan announced last week that, it tightened sanitary-medical controls at its border crossings, amid a reported cholera outbreak in neighbouring Afghanistan.
All customs posts at land and air border crossings, have been provided with thermal imagers and non-contact thermometers, for examining those arriving in Uzbekistan, it said.
Uzbekistan shares a 144-km border with Afghanistan, with road and railway connections on a bridge over the Amudarya river.– NNN-XINHUA
