{"id":204442,"date":"2025-08-11T15:28:58","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-more-than-95-000-malaria-cases-154-deaths-countrywide-this-year\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T13:28:58","slug":"namibia-more-than-95-000-malaria-cases-154-deaths-countrywide-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-more-than-95-000-malaria-cases-154-deaths-countrywide-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: More Than 95 000 Malaria Cases, 154 Deaths Countrywide This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\"><em>Health and social services minister Esperance Luvindao says 95 729 cumulative malaria cases and 154 deaths were recorded countrywide since the beginning of the year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The Zambezi region has recorded the highest number of malaria cases, with 25 065 of the total number.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Luvindao revealed this in a speech read on her behalf by health ministry executive director Penda Ithindi at the belated commemoration of Malaria Day at Sibbinda constituency in the Zambezi region on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The Malaria Day theme was&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508110029.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>Health and social services minister Esperance Luvindao says 95 729 cumulative malaria cases and 154 deaths were recorded countrywide since the beginning of the year. The Zambezi region has recorded the highest number of malaria cases, with 25 065 of the total number. Luvindao revealed this in a speech read on her behalf by health [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":204443,"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":[258,256,10498,15471,8601,7993,4706,724,257,254,6537],"class_list":["post-204442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cases","tag-countrywide","tag-deaths","tag-malaria","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-year"],"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\/204442","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=204442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}