Haiti - The confirmed number of fatalities in Haiti due to the cholera outbreak is 259, the Haitian Health Minister Gabriel Thimotee announced on Monday.
The number of people infected with cholera has risen to 3 342.
These figures were confirmed by Thimotee, who said Haiti was seeking "to mobilise all the people" to avoid a further spread of the disease.
Daniel Epstien, spokesperson of the Pan American Health Organisation (PHO), said he hoped they would soon be talking about the end of the epidemic.
Spain's Secretary of Development Cooperation Soraya Rodriguez said in Madrid, Spain's capital, that it was urgent to set sanitary cordons in Haiti in order to stop the epidemic, which has been worsened by the effects of the earthquake occurred in February this year.
Meanwhile, in Dominican Republic, Customs General Director Rafael Camilo said they would continue taking extreme measures "which are painful," but necessary, to prevent the cholera from entering Dominican Republic.
These measures included the total suspension of all the commercial exchange in the region. This has aroused strong protests from the Haitian merchants who have thrown stones in the border between both countries.
Cholera, a waterborne bacterial infection, is transmitted mainly through drinking contaminated water and unsanitary conditions.
The Artibonite River, which irrigates Haiti's rural centre and provides water for thousands of people, is believed to be the source of the outbreak.
