WHO: Deaths can double in Gaza as infectious disease spreads

It is predicted that if an infectious disease were to occur in the Gaza Strip, a disputed area between Israel and Palestine, the number of deaths could be up to twice as high. Yonhap News etc. on the 6th,
It reported on the scale of human losses predicted based on scenarios published by the World Health Organization (WHO), such as armistice, hostilities, and escalation of war.
Palestine relief chief Richard Pippa estimates the scale of human loss by situation published by WHO.
Mr. Kon added the spread of infectious diseases as a variable to a total of three war situations and organized them into six cases. With a lack of clean water and poor sanitary conditions, the Gaza Strip is vulnerable to the spread of infectious diseases at any time.
There are concerns that there is. The WHO estimates that the number of cases of respiratory infections and diarrhea in the Gaza Strip has reached hundreds of thousands since October last year. As of the 6th, according to local standards, deaths in the Gaza Strip
The death toll is said to be 30,717. The scale of human loss in the six cases was calculated by a research team from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and Johns Hopkins University. The research team will be here on February 7th.
The number of deaths occurring in the Gaza Strip was calculated for the six months from August 6th to August 6th. Since the start of hostilities between the Israeli army and the Palestinian armed group Hamas on October 7th last year, as of February 6th,
The number of deaths that occurred in the area was around 27,000. Pippercon said that if there is no outbreak of infectious diseases in the Gaza Strip by August 8, there will be 6,550 people at the end of the war, and the current situation of hostilities will continue.
If the war were to continue, an additional 58,260 people would die, and if the war escalated, an additional 74,290 people would die. If an infectious disease spreads, the human loss will nearly double.
The researchers estimated that 11,580 people would die under ceasefire conditions when the epidemic spreads in the Gaza Strip, 58,260 people would die if the current situation was maintained, and 74,290 people would die if the disease spread.
It was expected that some people would occur. The WHO said, ``The Gaza Strip is at high risk of famine due to food shortages, and there is a high possibility that it will be hit by a deadly health crisis in the future.''
"We must restore the system and put the infectious disease surveillance system into operation," he said.