{"id":230480,"date":"2026-04-16T03:06:46","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-cholera-testing-stepped-up-in-zambezia\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T03:06:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T01:06:46","slug":"mozambique-cholera-testing-stepped-up-in-zambezia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/mozambique\/mozambique-cholera-testing-stepped-up-in-zambezia\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozambique: Cholera Testing Stepped Up in Zambezia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Maputo \u2014 The Mozambican health authorities have intensified cholera testing in patients suffering from diarrhoea in various districts of the central province of Zamb\u00e9zia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">According to Isa\u00edas Marcos, head medical officer in Zamb\u00e9zia, from February to the present, the Pinda Cholera Treatment Center, in Pinda town, Morrumbala district, has reported 137 cases of cholera, with with no deaths recorded.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">According to Marcos, no new cases have been recorded for more than five days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" \/a rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202604150054.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 intensified cholera testing in patients suffering from diarrhoea in various districts of the central province of Zamb\u00e9zia. According to Isa\u00edas Marcos, head medical officer in Zamb\u00e9zia, from February to the present, the Pinda Cholera Treatment Center, in Pinda town, Morrumbala district, has reported 137 cases of cholera, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":230481,"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":[258,256,879,4704,682,257,254,17027,13274,11442],"class_list":["post-230480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mozambique","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cholera","tag-mozambique","tag-mozambique-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stepped","tag-testing","tag-zambezia"],"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\/230480","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=230480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230480\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}