{"id":48112,"date":"2023-05-19T07:07:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T07:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/suspected-cholera-cases-surpass-1-000-in-zimbabwe\/"},"modified":"2023-05-19T07:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T07:07:19","slug":"suspected-cholera-cases-surpass-1-000-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/suspected-cholera-cases-surpass-1-000-in-zimbabwe\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspected cholera cases surpass 1,000 in Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As of May 16, 2023, a cumulative total of 1,017 suspected cholera cases, six laboratory confirmed deaths, 20 suspected cholera deaths and 288 laboratory confirmed cases were reported,&#8221; the Ministry of Health and Child Care said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>There were 51 people hospitalized for cholera as of May 15, while the national recovery rate stood at 92 percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, the capital city Harare is among the country&#8217;s 17 cholera hotspot districts, and most cases have been reported in the western high-density suburbs where some residents live under unhygienic conditions.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of confirmed cases, Matabeleland South Province is the highest hit with 96, followed by Manicaland Province with 89, then Harare with 80, the government figures show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The number of suspected cholera cases in Zimbabwe has surpassed 1,000, among which 288 were confirmed and six have died since the latest outbreak on Feb. 12, according to a government release.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-48112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48112"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48112"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}