Cyclone Idai: Cholera Cases Reported In Storm-Hit Mozambique - Liberty TV/Radio - News - Voice For All! Vision For Alll!
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March 23, 2019
A week after theflooded Mozambican port of Beira was hit by Cyclone Idai, cases of cholera havebeen recorded.
The InternationalFederation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies warned of the risk of otheroutbreaks, already noting an increase in malaria.
The storm has so farkilled 557 people across Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, but the death toll isexpected to rise. Idai made landfall near Beira with 177 kilometres per hourwinds on March 14.
Aid workers are slowlydelivering relief but conditions are said to be extremely difficult, with someareas completely inaccessible and a scarcity of helicopters.
Some 1.7 millionpeople are said to be affected across southern Africa, with no electricity orrunning water in areas where homes have been swept away and roads destroyed bythe floods.