Manicaland records highest number of malaria cases

Zim Now Writer

Manicaland Province has contributed one third of the total number of cases recorded across the country, thus recording the highest number of the national cumulative total.

According to the ministry’s Weekly Disease Surveillance Report for week ending February 19, 2 617 malaria cases were reported during the week under review, Manicaland had 679 followed by Mashonaland Central Province with 673.

The were no deaths, however, recorded in Manicaland, although Mutoko District in Mashonaland East Province and Guruve District in Mashonaland Central reported a single death each.

According to the Weekly Disease Surveillance Report, 299 of the reported cases were of children under the age of five.

Cumulative figures for reported malaria cases nationwide stand at 17 623 and 39 deaths.

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