Cholera outbreak claims 362 lives in Zambia since October
Zambia has declared additional strigent steps to manage the cholera epidemic, which has not dropped.
KATHMANDU: Cholera has killed 362 people in Zambia since October. Since the outbreak of waterborne disease (cholera) in October, 9,155 people have been infected so far.
Zambia has declared additional strigent steps to manage the cholera epidemic, which has not dropped.
The Minister of Health, Sylvia Masebo, stated that the government has included a section in the previously announced statutory instrument to strengthen cholera preventive and control efforts.
Other early efforts included limitations on the commerce of food in filthy circumstances and the prohibition on detaining persons who had died from cholera. Churches were urged to bury anyone who died from cholera within two hours.
In the previous 24 hours, 431 new infections and 11 fatalities have been reported in six of the country’s ten provinces, with 388 individuals discharged.
