adminconfirmed health officials were on high alert “because of the high mobility of people between Harare and Chiredzi”.
According to media reports, two people have so far died in Chiredzi while more than 100 others were treated for cholera.
Dr Chonzi said the city was still far from declaring the typhoid outbreak over because people are still being treated for the disease. He said the numbers have gone down drastically from around 90 patients per day to an average of one or two per day. The longest the city has gone without recording a single case was 10 days. Dr
Chonzi said council has dismantled the tents at Kuwadzana and Beatrice Infectious Diseases Hospital which were set up to accommodate the large numbers of typhoid patients.
“We are now redeploying our staff back to their usual workstations,” he said.
Zimbabwe experienced a severe cholera outbreak in 2008 that left at least 4 200 people dead.
Peter Tanyanyiwa
Online Reporter