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Zambia to Receive One Million Cholera Vaccines on Sunday

According to the latest information from the Zambian Ministry of Information, 7,004 cases of the disease and 273 deaths have been reported in the southern African country since October.
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Zambia is set to receive one million doses of cholera vaccine from the World Health Organization on Sunday, Roma Chilengi, health advisor to the President Hakainde Hichilema, announced in an interview with the state-run media of disease-stricken Zambia.
He added that the vaccines will be used to immunize communities at high risk of contracting cholera.
"We will try to give priority to places where the [cholera] problem is highest," Chilengi noted.
Earlier in the day, Zambia's Ministry of Information said that a combination of surveillance, water, sanitation and hygiene, social mobilization and treatment would arrive in the country on Sunday.
Last week, the country's Ministry of Education announced a three-month delay in the reopening of all educational institutions to contain the cholera outbreak.
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On December 21, Zambia experienced a cholera outbreak, with 74 cases reported in a single day, 70 of them in the capital, Lusaka.
By the end of December, officials said the number of people sickened by the virus had exceeded 3,000 and had spread to new regions. Zambia's president lamented the outbreak at the time, adding that he favored making Zambia a center for cholera vaccine production.