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The World Health Organization (WHO) announced Thursday that Mozambique would launch an anti-cholera vaccination campaign next week in areas devastated by Hurricane Idai after the discovery of five confirmed cases.
Thousands of people have been trapped for more than a week in submerged villages without access to safe drinking water after Hurricane Idai stormed the coastal city of Pera on Wednesday. March 14, causing catastrophic floods and killing more than 700 people in three countries in South-East Africa.
In Mozambique, seven clinics have been set up to treat cholera patients and two more will be ready soon, said reporters David Whitwick, a member of the WHO response team in Pera.
"We have 900,000 doses of oral cholera vaccines coming Monday and we will begin a vaccination campaign as soon as possible next week," Whitwick said.
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