KIEV, Aug. 31 – All cholera patients and carriers in Mariupol (Donetsk region) have been discharged from hospital after recovering as of Wednesday morning, and the source of infection of the disease in the town has been eradicated, reads a statement posted on the Web site of the Donetsk regional sanitary and epidemiological service, citing Viktor Denysenko, the chief state sanitary doctor in the region.

The report notes that according to preliminary conclusions by experts, the agent of the disease was brought into the town "from other regions of the globe."

In order to avoid epidemiological complications in Mariupol, executive government agencies were ordered to ensure the completion of the construction and commissioning of a wastewater treatment plant in the Prymorsky district in the town, as well as to consider and resolve the issue of the disposal of household wastewater from the private sector in the villages of Havan and Slobidka, which are located in close proximity to the Sea of Azov.