Worst Cholera Outbreak in Decades Kills 750 People in Malawi
A cholera patient inside an isolation ward at a hospital in Lilongwe, Malawi, Jan. 11.
Photographer: Thoko Chikondi/AP Photo
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Blantyre, Malawi (AP) -- The worst cholera outbreak to affect Malawi in two decades has now claimed 750 lives, a government minister said, while the World Health Organization chief described the southeast African country as among the hardest-hit amid ongoing global epidemics that are “more widespread and deadly than normal.”
Malawi’s Health Minister Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda on Thursday ordered the closure of many businesses that lack safe water, toilets and hygienic refuse disposal facilities, and announced restrictions on the sale of pre-cooked food.