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Crisis Overview
As of 18 March, almost 6,000 cases of cholera, including 47 deaths, have been registered in five provinces, mainly in the north of the country, since first reported in December. Over 13–15 March, 353 new cases and three deaths were recorded countrywide.
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The number of new cases is decreasing in all provinces but Zambezia, where the number of new cases in provincial capital Quelimane continues to rise. Existing capacities for treatment are limited and overstretched.
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The most affected province, Tete, has not had a cholera outbreak since 2009, which means that a large proportion of the population does not have built-in resistance to the bacteria and is therefore more at risk of contracting cholera.
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Mozambique regularly suffers outbreaks of cholera and diarrhoea during its October–March rainy season, but floods and heavy rains in December and January, and heavy rains in early March, have exacerbated the outbreak.