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POST TIME: 28 March, 2019 00:00 00 AM
Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique reports cholera cases
AFP, Beira

Cyclone-ravaged Mozambique reports cholera cases

People walk at a football field where 20 tents are set up for shelter by the Mozambique National Institute of Disaster Management (INGC) after the area was hit and isolated by the Cyclone Idai in Estaquinha, about 80km west from Beira, Mozambique on Tuesday. AFP PHOTO

Five cases of cholera have been confirmed in Mozambique following the cyclone that ravaged the country killing at least 468 people, a government health official said yesterday.

Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique on March 15, unleashing hurricane-force winds and heavy rains that flooded much of the centre of the country and then battered eastern Zimbabwe and Malawi.

“We have five cases of cholera which have been confirmed. This is in Beira and the area around,” the health official, Ussein Isse, told journalists, referring to the city which bore the brunt of the cyclone’s force. UN humanitarian aid chief Mark Lowcock has appealed for $282 million (250 million euros) of relief aid over the next three months for Mozambique.