Tag: cholera epidemic

• Monday, February 3rd 2020 - 07:40 UTC

  Massive injection of liquidity in China to help counter economic effects of the epidemic

  

  China's central bank said it will inject 1.2 trillion Yuan (US$ 174 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets via reverse repo operations on Monday as its stock markets prepare to reopen amid an outbreak of a new coronavirus.

• Saturday, July 21st 2012 - 06:28 UTC

  US members of Congress blame the UN for introducing cholera to Haiti

  

  More than 100 Democrats from the US House of Representatives have called on the UN to take responsibility for introducing cholera to Haiti. It is the latest twist in the allegation that UN peacekeepers unwittingly introduced the disease.

• Thursday, July 19th 2012 - 08:09 UTC

  Cuba suspends carnival festivities to prevent spread of cholera outbreak

  

  Traditional summer carnivals in the eastern Cuban cities of Bayamo and Manzanillo have been suspended due to an outbreak of cholera in the region, authorities said on Wednesday.

• Thursday, June 30th 2011 - 20:17 UTC

  US says Haiti cholera epidemic was imported, probably UN Nepal peacekeepers

  

  Evidence strongly suggests UN peacekeepers from Nepal were the source of a cholera epidemic in Haiti that has killed more than 5,500 people, said a new report by the US Centres for Disease Control Prevention.