Updated April 1, 2019
A mass vaccination campaign is due to be rolled out on Wednesday as authorities and aid workers are scrambling to avert an epidemic more than two weeks after a devastating cyclone slammed Mozambique. “Vaccination against cholera begins on Wednesday in Beira,” a senior Mozambican health official Ussein Isse said.The city of more than half-a-million people recorded 247 cases in 24 hours between Sunday and Monday morning.The numbers of cholera cases is expected to rise due to the increasing numbers of people reporting to health centres with symptoms, said the WHO in a statement.
Cyclone Idai killed more than 700 people across Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe and hundreds of thousands have been left homeless — many of whom have been forced to use dirty water supplies. At least 518 of those deaths have occurred in Mozambique.
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