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STORY: UN / YEMEN CHOLERA UPDATE
TRT: 01:00
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 30 AUGUST 2018, NEW YORK CITY
FILE - NEW YORK CITY
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30 AUGUST 2018, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, press room
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General:
“And our humanitarian colleagues tell us that the number of reported suspected cholera cases in Yemen has been increasing over the last two months. Since April 2017, more than 1.1 million suspected cholera cases and 2,310 associated deaths have been reported across Yemen. The outbreak is the most serious on record. Between the beginning of the year and mid-August 2018, 120,000 suspected cases have been reported. Although this figure is lower than during the same period last year, the increasing rate of infections over recent weeks is raising concerns of a possible third wave of the epidemic, with the current rains increasing the risk of spread.”
4. Med shot, journalists
5. Wide shot, press room
UN spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told journalists today (30 Aug) that the number of reported suspected cholera cases in Yemen has been increasing “raising concerns of a possible third wave of the epidemic.”
Dujarric said more than 1.1 million suspected cholera cases and 2,310 associated deaths have been reported across Yemen since April 2017. He said the outbreak is “the most serious on record.”
The spokesperson noted that between the beginning of the year and mid-August 2018, 120,000 suspected cases have been reported. He added, “Although this figure is lower than during the same period last year, the increasing rate of infections over recent weeks is raising concerns of a possible third wave of the epidemic, with the current rains increasing the risk of spread.”
Dujarric said humanitarians are working to avoid a large-scale resurgence, vaccinating nearly 400,000 people against cholera in high-risk districts of Hodeidah and Ibb this month.
He said the UN’s partners also continued to support critical water, sanitation, hygiene and health facilities, adding that supplies to treat over half a million cholera cases have been pre-positioned in warehouses and health offices in at-risk districts.
