. Cyclone Idai severely damaged the water system for Beira, a city of 500,000, when it hit on March 14.Some 900,000 cholera vaccine doses are set to arrive on Monday, according to the World Health Organization.
The Chinese government has sent doctors and emergency workers to fight the cholera outbreak in Beira and Chinese aid workers sprayed anti-cholera disinfectant in parts of the port city. “Separately from these shipments, the United States has provided nearly $3.4 million in additional funding for the World Food Program to deliver approximately 2,500 metric tons of rice, peas, and vegetable oil to affected people in Sofala, Zambezia, and Manica provinces,” said Mearkle. “This life-saving emergency food assistance will support approximately 160,000 people for one month.”
As health responders stress the need for better disease surveillance, the United Nations’ deputy humanitarian co-ordinator in Mozambique, Sebastian Rhodes Stampa, has said all cases of diarrhea are being treated as though they are cholera.
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