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Situation Update
• Cyclone Freddy has dissipated, and no cyclonic activity is forecast over the next five days. Moderate rain is expected in all northern provinces in the next 5 days. The water levels in almost all rivers are slowly reducing.
• Cholera cases continue to rise, with high numbers of cases being reported in accommodation centres. As a preventative measure to curb the spread of the disease, and due to the Government’s desire to reopen schools, accommodation centres are being closed.
• Access constraints remain in many affected parts of the country including in Zambezia, Tete and Sofala provinces, and last mile connectivity is still limited to four-wheel drive vehicles, boats or air transport.
WFP is leveraging all logistics assets to enable last mile connectivity not just for its own programmes but also for the humanitarian community at large through the logistics working group.
• The humanitarian community will issue a joint flash appeal to mobilise resources for the Cyclone Freddy emergency response scale-up.
Highlights
• Cholera cases are rising in seven of the affected provinces and have already crossed the 11,500 mark.
• Through cash-based transfers, WFP has provided 7-day rations (covering 100 percent of people’s daily kcal requirements) for 17,545 people, hosted in accommodation centres and 30-days rations (covering 75 percent of daily kcal needs) for 10,655 people returning to the community