The Food and Veterinary Agency has issued a temporary ban on the use of drinking water from the Gostivar water supply system due to well-founded suspicions that it is contaminated and unsafe for consumption.
On Friday, it said the inspection had revealed that a pump had been illegally installed on the main pipeline of the water supply network without authorization, directly injecting water from the Vardar into the water supply system. However, he rejected the possibility of it being caused by food, contrary to what the Director of the Komunalec PE, Artana Asani, had told Telma the previous day.
Results from the analyses of the water from the Gostivar water supply system will be available starting Monday. The decision declaring the epidemic was made by the Tetovo Center on Sunday afternoon. So far, 1,800 people have sought medical assistance.