Mozambique: No Longer an Outbreak, but an Epidemic

Maputo — Mozambique is no longer facing an outbreak of cholera, but an epidemic, the National Director of Public Health, Quinhas Fernandes, warned at a Maputo press conference on Thursday.

“The country has an epidemic. That’s clear because we have several outbreaks in several places’, said Fernandes. “The definition of an epidemic is when we have several outbreaks at the same time. So yes, we have an epidemic’.

From 3 October 2025 to 17 February this year, 5,661 cases of cholera were diagnosed….