: Uzbekistan tightens sanitary controls at border amid cholera outbreak in Afghanistan #IndiaNEWS #International,Health/Medicine,,South Asia Tashkent, July 17 (IANS) Uzbekistan has tightened sanitary-medical

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Uzbekistan tightens sanitary controls at border amid cholera outbreak in Afghanistan #IndiaNEWS #International ,Health/Medicine,,South Asia
Tashkent, July 17 (IANS) Uzbekistan has tightened sanitary-medical controls at its border crossings amid a reported cholera outbreak in neighbouring Afghanistan, said Uzbek public health authorities.
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, the Uzbek Sanitary-Epidemiological Welfare and Public Health Service said in a statement on Saturday.
It added that reserve beds and medicines in infectious diseases hospitals have been prepared for sick or suspected patients with cholera, Xinhua news agency reported.
Uzbekistan shares a 144-km border with Afghanistan, with road and railway connections on a bridge over the Amudarya river.
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