{"id":224705,"date":"2026-02-22T12:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-70-deaths-in-current-cholera-outbreak\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T12:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T10:56:04","slug":"mozambique-70-deaths-in-current-cholera-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-70-deaths-in-current-cholera-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: 70 Deaths in Current Cholera Outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican health authorities have recorded 70 deaths caused by cholera throughout the country, during the current rainy season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">According to government spokesperson and Minister of State Administration, Inocencio Impissa, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, after a meeting of the Council of Ministers (cabinet), the health authorities recorded 5,242 cases of cholera since last October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">The central provinces of Zambezia, Manica and Tete, and the northern provinces of Nampula and Cabo&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602180510.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Mozambique\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/\">Mozambique<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican health authorities have recorded 70 deaths caused by cholera throughout the country, during the current rainy season. According to government spokesperson and Minister of State Administration, Inocencio Impissa, speaking to reporters on Tuesday, after a meeting of the Council of Ministers (cabinet), the health authorities recorded 5,242 cases of cholera since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":224706,"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":[654],"tags":[258,256,879,9184,8601,4704,682,257,6582,254],"class_list":["post-224705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cholera","tag-current","tag-deaths","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-outbreak","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/224705","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=224705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}