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Zimbabwe: Daily cholera update and alerts, 03 Mar 2009

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* Please note that daily information collection is a challenge due to communication and staff constraints. On-going data cleaning may result in an increase or decrease in the numbers. Any change will then be explained.

** Daily information on new deaths should not imply that these deaths occurred in cases reported that day. Therefore daily CFRs >100% may occasionally result

A. Highlights of the day:

- 394 cases and 6 deaths added today (in comparison 1569 cases and 12 deaths yesterday)

- 69.5 % of the districts affected have reported today (41 out of 59 affected districts)

- 90.3 % of districts reported to be affected (56 districts/62)

- Cumulative Institutional Case Fatality Rate 1.8.%

- Daily Institutional Case Fatality Rate 0.6 %

- Denotifications: Mutasa 2 cases, Chipinge 2 deaths

- Reclassification of deaths in Makonde( 1 death moved from community to institutional)