Zimbabwe cholera cases up to almost 65,000: WHO
GENEVA (AFP) — The number of people reported to be infected by cholera in Zimbabwe has risen to almost 65,000, latest data from the World Health Organization showed on Tuesday.
Some 64,701 people have caught the disease during the outbreak, which started in August, and 3,295 among them have died, the WHO said.
The latest data indicated that 1,792 new cases and 66 deaths have been added since Monday, when WHO statistics showed 62,909 cases and 3,229 deaths.
On Monday, UN chief Ban Ki-moon said President Robert Mugabe had agreed to allow a top-level United Nations team to visit Zimbabwe to find ways of curbing a cholera epidemic and a hunger crisis.
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