Five cases of cholera confirmed in Mozambique following cyclone

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Five cases of cholera confirmed in Mozambique following cyclone
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Reports of the disease follow a cyclone which killed at least 705 people across the country and Zimbabwe.

Five cases of cholera have been confirmed in Mozambique following the devastation caused by Cyclone Idai, the government has confirmed,AFP, meanwhile, has documented the devastation experienced by Mozambican families following the tragedy

“We were thrown into the water and I lost sight of my son. I looked everywhere but I didn’t know where he was – I was terrified.” They were trapped there without food or water as floodwaters rushed underneath them, carrying human bodies and animal carcasses.When she scrambled free, she was covered with the dark red earth dislodged by the fast-flowing floodwaters.“I spent three days in that tree, the time it took for the water to recede,” the survivor said.

People try to recover house materials from water after a house was destroyed by the Cyclone Idai in John Segredo, Mozambique, on March 24, 2019. – Cyclone Idai smashed into Mozambique’s coast unleashing hurricane-force wind and rain that flooded swathes of the poor country before battering eastern Zimbabwe – killing 705 people across the two nations. She held out hope that her son had survived their terrifying ordeal but a small body had been found in a nearby cornfield – that of Zacharia.

Electricity pylons are scattered on the ground and only a handful of wooden construction posts remain in the ground after homes and businesses were levelled.

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