Cholera cases jump to 138 in Mozambique

People who lost their home by the cyclone Idai wake up in the morning as they stay in a shelter on a street in Buzi, Mozambique.

Cyclone Idai smashed into Beira on March 14, causing catastrophic flooding and killing more than 700 people across three countries in southeast Africa.Many badly affected areas in Mozambique and Zimbabwe are still inaccessible by road, complicating relief efforts and exacerbating the threat of infection.

A Reuters reporter saw the body of a dead child being brought out of an emergency clinic in Beira on Wednesday. The child had suffered acute diarrhoea, which can be a symptom of cholera.The government said for the first time that there had been confirmed cholera cases on Wednesday. That takes the total death toll across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi to 738 people, with many more still missing.

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