New development in the epidemic that hospitalized thousands of people in Tokat! The results of the water tests have been announced

An investigation was initiated by the relevant institutions after the increase in hospital admissions with complaints of nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain and diarrhea in the city center since the evening hours of Friday, October 9.

Samsun Metropolitan Municipality and Ministry of Health General Directorate of Public Health teams took water samples in the city.

Tokat Mayor Mehmet Kemal Yazıcıoğlu announced that the results of the tests performed on the samples taken from the mains water related to the epidemic that caused thousands of people to apply to hospitals in the city were released.

Mayor Mehmet Kemal Yazıcıoğlu made statements about the work of the teams and the condition of the patients.

Stating that the teams coming from Samsun also took samples and examined them, Yazıcıoğlu said, "One of the most important issues here is the work of the teams sent by our General Directorate of Public Health, that is, our ministry. We have now received preliminary information that their samples and examinations were clean."

'THE TESTS WERE CLEAN'

In his statement, Mayor Yazıcıoğlu said, "The results of the tests came. They said they were clean. Of course, our citizens were worried. We took all our precautions and increased our chlorine level. It will continue like this for a little longer. I wish all our citizens to get well soon. All our institutions fought hard. I thank everyone. As a municipality, we were waiting for 2 analysis results. The results were negative for these. This made us very happy. The exact cause of the epidemic is not clear at the moment, but our expert friends said it was nerovirus. Take care of our personal care. "We will show it. They stated that the cases started to decrease," he said.