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As of 5 October 2023, the suspected cases and deaths were at 4609 and 100 respectively, confirmed at 935 cases while death toll at 30. [4] On the 17 November 2023, the central government announced a state of emergency in Harare metropolitan. [5] It now have a geographic coverage of 45 out of 62 districts.
The 2008 Zimbabwean cholera outbreak was an epidemic of cholera affecting much of Zimbabwe from August 2008 until June 2009. The outbreak began in Chitungwiza in Harare Metropolitan Province in August 2008, then spread throughout the country so that by December 2008, cases were being reported in all 10 provinces . [ 6 ]
These days, Catherine Mangosho locks her 3-year-old grandson in the house for hours on end in an attempt to shield him from a deadly cholera outbreak in Zimbabwe. The virulent bacterial disease is ...
The 2022–2024 Southern Africa cholera outbreak is an outbreak that has spread across Southern Africa. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It started in Machinga District in Malawi in March 2022. [ 4 ] The cholera outbreak in Malawi linked to cases in South Africa , the strains belong to the seventh cholera pandemic .
A 2008 cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe began in August 2008, swept across the country [5] and spread to Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zambia. [6] [7] By 10 January 2010 there had been 98,741 reported cases and 4,293 deaths making it the deadliest African cholera outbreak since 1993.
The WHO began a campaign to vaccinate 1.4 million people in Harare against cholera for people living in areas at most risk of contracting the disease in October 2018. [4] To address the water supply issues in key hotspots affected by cholera through increasing water supply through water trucking, adding water tanks, and repairing existing water ...
12 October – 2023 Zimbabwe cholera outbreak: Zimbabwe bans gatherings of more than 50 people amid a cholera outbreak in the country. [3] 11 November 2023 to 9 December 2023: 2023 Zimbabwean by-elections. [4]
The deteriorating water supply and sanitation sectors caught up with Zimbabwe in 2008 and 2009, as Zimbabwe experienced a massive cholera outbreak (Zimbabwean cholera outbreak), during which almost 100,000 were infected and over 4,000 died. [2] [8]