The latest official data shows almost a hundred deaths from the disease, whose first outbreak dates back to last October and which has since wiped out all the Health Ministry's initiatives and awareness campaigns to stop its advance, proving overwhelming.
Greater domestic hygiene and an increase in the dose of chlorine for water intended for human consumption in the areas with the highest incidence of the disease are the measures announced by the Ministers of Health, Sylvia Masebo, and Water Resources, Mike Mposha.
The head of the public health department revealed that the mortality rate is currently above 3 percent, well above the 1 percent considered acceptable by international standards. The official thermometers are based on statistics on the course of the disease, according to which five infected people died and 111 new infections were registered in the last 24 hours alone.
Local experts told the press that the spread of the disease in this southern African country was due to the heavy rains that hit large parts of the country.
Precipitation promotes the formation of clean water deposits in which the disease-causing bacteria find their ideal breeding medium.
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