Health department reports decrease in cholera cases

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The department of health has reported a decline in cholera cases across the country after only one cholera-positive case was confirmed in Gauteng out of 28 suspected cases in the past 10 days.

Cholera has been found in water samples from the Vaal River. Experts say it’s unlikely to end up in household tap water. he department of health has reported a decline in cholera cases across the country after only one cholera-positive case was confirmed in Gauteng out of 28 suspected cases in the past 10 days.

The warning comes after the country recorded 1 073 suspected cholera cases in five provinces, of which 198 cases were laboratory confirmed from 1 February to 4 July. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has since said that “subsequent cases acquired infection locally and are classified as indigenous cases”.

But councillor Dimakatso Moloisane of ward 32 in Johannesburg North, said: “There is still fear from the residents because of the ongoing water outages.”

 

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