"From 1 January 2024 to 28 April 2024, a cumulative total of 145 900 cholera cases and 1766 deaths were reported from 24 countries across five WHO regions, with the African Region recording the highest numbers, followed by the Eastern Mediterranean Region, the Region of the Americas, the South-East Asia Region, and the European Region," the report read.
In March, WHO said that cholera has been surging globally since 2021, with a total of 473,000 cases reported to the organization in 2022 — a twofold increase in reported cases compared to 2021. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Zambia, and Zimbabwe are the most severely impacted countries by cholera at the moment, it said.