The National Institute of Public Health of Kosovo (IKSHPK) recommended citizens to boil water before consuming it or to use safe sources and bottled water.
This is because, as IKSHPK said on January 22, as a result of the floods, increased turbidity values were recorded in many water sources.
IKSHPK said that boiling water is a simple and common procedure, but added that now it is necessary to prevent epidemic outbreaks.
"The teams of the National Institute are in a state of readiness and continue with regular monitoring and are available with all the capacities to maintain a stable situation and for any worsening of the epidemiological situation you will be informed in real time", the announcement states.
Likewise, the Government of Kosovo has announced that it has raised the level of readiness with all relevant institutions.
The regional water supply company "Prishtina" announced on January 22 that due to heavy rains and floods, we continue to have high water turbidity in the Ibri canal.
This company announced that the water factory in Shkabaj is out of order and there will be water reductions in some parts of the city of Fushë Kosova, Pristina, Obiliq and Drenas.
The Prime Minister of Kosovo, Albin Kurti, after the visits he made on January 22 to the municipalities affected by the floods in Skenderaj and Mitrovica, said that there are many "dead animals, hence the risk of an epidemic".
The floods caused by the torrential rains during this week have damaged houses, businesses, agricultural crops and roads in several municipalities of Kosovo.
Rainfall is expected to continue during the following days until January 25.