After the cessation of the protests in the neighboring country of Haiti and the arrival of the Christmas season, the commercial activities that take place in the Dajabón border market between Haitians and Dominicans have normalized.
This has been announced by Dajabón merchants, who state that sales have improved significantly. The improvement occurs after normalizing the situation of crisis and protests that had been registered in the neighboring nation. They state that they kept trade in the entire area practically blocked.
The merchants expect that as the month of December progresses, the sales of products and merchandise in the market will continue to increase. They express their wish that the economy of the area be fully reactivated.
Haiti in the midst of cholera outbreak
A batch of 1.2 million cholera vaccines has arrived in Haiti, where there is an outbreak of this disease aggravated by insecurity in the country, which prevents effective measures to be taken to control its spread, the World Food Organization said today. Health (WHO).
The institution tries to closely follow the evolution of the disease in the poorest country on the American continent, but encounters great difficulties given that 60% of the capital -where transmission is concentrated- has fallen under the control of criminal gangs, which prevents access for humanitarians and prevents people from traveling to treatment centers.
The person in charge of the division dedicated to cholera at the WHO, the epidemiologist Philippe Barboza, commented that everything indicates that the number of cases is not multiplying exponentially every day, but instead their geographical extension is very important, “which increases the risk that the situation will worsen. With the vaccines that have arrived this week, a vaccination campaign will begin.
According to the expert, there are 15,000 suspected cases of cholera, but only 900 that have been confirmed in the laboratory.
