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HARARE, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) – At least 16 people died last week of a cholera outbreak in Harare that has now spread to the Midlands Province, media reports said Monday. State.
The epidemic has occurred in the high-density suburbs of Glen View and Budiriro, southwest of the city. Five of them died on Friday.
Harare City Health Services Director, Clemence Duri, told The Herald that the authorities are monitoring the affected areas and have deployed intervention teams.
"The death toll has risen to 16 after more people died of suspected cholera today (Sunday).
"Although we are not yet sure about the cause of death, we suspect it is cholera because of the symptoms presented," he said.
Duri said that 106 people had been admitted to an infectious diseases hospital in the city.
He urged residents to consume treated water and confirmed that some boreholes had been decommissioned.
Four other cases related to the Harare epidemic have since been reported in North Gokwe, in the Midlands Province.
Although cholera cases hit the country almost every year, many families still carry the scars of a cholera outbreak between August 2008 and June 2009, when 98,596 cholera cases were reported, resulting in 4,369 deaths in the country.
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