{"id":195880,"date":"2025-04-11T23:06:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-zambezi-records-4-malaria-deaths-in-one-week\/"},"modified":"2025-04-11T23:06:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-11T21:06:34","slug":"namibia-zambezi-records-4-malaria-deaths-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-zambezi-records-4-malaria-deaths-in-one-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Zambezi Records 4 Malaria Deaths in One Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"17\"><em>Zambezi region malaria infections have spiked with 2 138 new cases and four new deaths this week.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The region&#8217;s malaria cases last week stood at 11 122, with nine deaths.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Regional health director Woita Kapumburu yesterday said the total number of cases in the region stands at 13 480.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"11\">&#8220;Malaria deaths since the outbreak are now at 13,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">Kapumburu said the region has sufficient antimalaria medicine, as it has received over 16 000 units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">He said two doctors were deployed to join the region&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504110063.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zambezi region malaria infections have spiked with 2 138 new cases and four new deaths this week. The region&#8217;s malaria cases last week stood at 11 122, with nine deaths. Regional health director Woita Kapumburu yesterday said the total number of cases in the region stands at 13 480. &#8220;Malaria deaths since the outbreak are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":195881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8601,7993,4706,724,257,6850,254,6653,7392],"class_list":["post-195880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-deaths","tag-malaria","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-records","tag-south-africa-today","tag-week","tag-zambezi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195880\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}