Health workers fear that the situation will worsen as the rainy season has not yet started.
The death toll from the cholera epidemic in Malawi has exceeded 400, Health Minister Hubize Chiponda announced today, urging residents in affected areas to get vaccinated.
In a press conference she gave in the capital Lilongwe, the minister said that the cases have reached 13,837 and the dead have reached 410 since the first focus of the disease was detected last March.
The mortality rate is 2.96%.
Cholera is spread by contaminated water and food.
Health workers fear that the situation will worsen as the rainy season has not yet started.
Chiponda urged residents of Mangochi, a tourist destination, as well as those of Blantyre, the country’s second largest city, to get vaccinated quickly and observe hygiene measures.
In Mangochi, 3,698 cases and 71 deaths have been recorded so far.
The second phase of vaccination has not yet started in these two cities, but some clinics are administering doses of vaccines left over from the previous vaccination campaign in May.
Malawi received 2.9 million doses of vaccines through the World Health Organization in November.
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