{"id":52951,"date":"2025-02-12T07:56:44","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/cholera-outbreak-claims-more-than-110-lives-in-angola\/"},"modified":"2025-02-12T07:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-12T07:58:03","slug":"cholera-outbreak-claims-more-than-110-lives-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/cholera-outbreak-claims-more-than-110-lives-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Cholera outbreak claims more than 110 lives in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since February 1, the country has been seeing over 100 new cholera cases every day, with a high of 295 cases recorded on February 8. <\/p>\n<p>However, the confirmation of cases through laboratory testing remains limited, with only around 20 samples being processed daily.<\/p>\n<p>The outbreak, which started on January 7, has spread across several provinces, with Luanda and the neighboring Bengo province being the hardest hit.<\/p>\n<p>To combat the outbreak, more than 925,000 people have been vaccinated, covering 86% of the targeted population, according to the Health Ministry&#8217;s epidemiological report on Monday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-81519\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/ago_nam_land_sketch_horiz_02-01.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Angola has reported a total of 3,402 cholera cases and 114 deaths since the outbreak began in early January, as stated in the Health Ministry&#8217;s daily update on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000081518,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000081518,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/050411_ebola_hmed_6a.webp","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/050411_ebola_hmed_6a.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/050411_ebola_hmed_6a.webp","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/050411_ebola_hmed_6a.webp","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/050411_ebola_hmed_6a.webp","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/050411_ebola_hmed_6a.webp","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52951","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=52951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52951\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000081518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52951"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=52951"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=52951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}