Mozambican health authorities registered almost 900 new cases of cholera and one death in the north of the country in around ten days, according to official data to which Lusa had access yesterday.
According to the most recent bulletin on the progression of the disease, prepared by the National Directorate of Public Health and with data up to March 19, a total of 14,274 cases of cholera have been recorded since October 1, in Mozambique.
In the previous bulletin, with data up to March 8, the total was 13,397 cases of cholera, which had caused 30 deaths until then. In the month of March there was an official record of three deaths from cholera in the country, according to the same data.
The fatality rate from the disease in Mozambique currently remains at 0.2%, but the total number of hospitalized people has increased to 94.
The province most affected by the current wave of this cholera outbreak is Nampula (North), with a total of 4,710 cases and 12 deaths, followed by Tete (Northwest), with 2,657 cases and ten deaths, where the prevalence of the disease rose to 0. 4% in March.
In previous statements to Lusa, the head of the Expanded Vaccination Program of the Ministry of Health, Leonildo Nhampossa, said that 2,268,548 people over the age of 1 year were vaccinated against cholera in four provinces, between 8 and 12 January. deity.
The target group for this vaccination operation was 2,271,136 people, corresponding to the population living in the most vulnerable areas and the focus of the current outbreak, previously mentioned the Ministry of Health.
Cholera is a treatable disease that causes severe diarrhea and can cause death from dehydration if not promptly treated.
The disease is caused, in large part, by the ingestion of contaminated food and water due to a lack of sanitation networks.
Last May, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the world will have a shortage of cholera vaccines by 2025 and that one billion people in 43 countries could be infected with the disease, pointing out, as early as October, Mozambique as one of the highest risk countries.