Tanzania initiates health measures at border points to contain the cholera outbreak
A man uses a bucket to collect safe drinking water for his family in Kuwadzana township during the launch of a campaign to immunise people with a cholera vaccine in affected areas, in Harare on January 29, 2024. PHOTO | AFP
Dar es Salaam. The government has started implementing various health interventions in airports, dry ports and border crossings to curtail the cholera outbreak in the country.
This comes after an alarming increase in the cholera outbreak in Africa that has spread to at least 10 countries, with the situation in Zambia and Zimbabwe being “very serious.”