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Weekly humanitarian snapshot highlights dzud in Mongolia
SocietyUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs highlighted the dzud in Mongolia and five other social and natural instabilities in Fiji, Myanmar, Papua New Guinea, Phillippines and Indonesia, in the Weekly Regional Humanitarian Snapshot (this February 16-22).
Since 20 January of this year, 211 out of a total of 339 districts in Mongolia have been affected by dzud (combination of summer drought followed by an extremely cold and snowy winter) or near-dzud conditions. An estimated, 225,800 people (62,719 herder households or 41 percent of the total herder population) are in a high-risk zone. This includes 28,290 children under five and 3,340 expectant mothers.
As of 15 February, 115,733 animals perished as a result of the heavy snow fall, severe storms and cold weather, some 225 people are at high-risk, reports the UNOCHA.
