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According to a report by the Assessment Capacities Project (ACAPS) published on 4 July, internally displaced persons have now been identified in 17 of 18 governorates in Iraq.
To reduce the risk of diarrheal disease outbreaks, water quality testing is ongoing by WHO and the Ministry of Health to monitor drinking water in six districts of Ninewah governorate. There are challenges in the transportation of samples due to fuel shortages.
Delivery of medicines and referral services in parts of Ninewah gov- ernorate and the Kurdistan Region are being impeded as a result of fuel shortages.
Disease surveillance reporting, stool sample collection and transpor- tation in Sinjar and Zumar has stopped as a result of the insecurity and fuel shortages.
CONTEXT
Iraq risks descending into "Syria-like chaos" if its political class fails to unite and agree on a government, said United Nations envoy to Baghdad Nickolay Mladenov on 3 July. The National Iraqi News Agency reported one of the strategic bridges linking Fallujah with the northern areas of the city has been destroyed.