With people sleeping outside, not having access to clean water. The death toll may possibly rise again.
At least 360 people have died, and 2.6 million people have been affected, the United Nations said, as Idai's winds ripped apart homes, schools and medical centres. Accompanying heavy rains have triggered floods, inundating swathes of farmland.
Kambaki said MSF teams were working in all three countries and were providing aid to survivors, but added that the magnitude of the disaster was still unfolding and that there would be increased need to focus on efforts to curb epidemics. , said aid workers, and rescue teams are battling to reach communities cut off due roads and bridges being washed away.In Zimbabwe's eastern mountainous province of Manicaland, aid workers from the charity Mercy Corps said they had begun distributing purified drinking water packets, hygiene and sanitation supplies to more than 1,600 in Chipinge district.
"Both Chimanimani and Chipinge are malaria zones and with people sleeping outside, not having access to clean water sources and, once temperatures increase again, the potential for case numbers to rise is great."
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