IN YESTERDAY’S edition, we published a story saying 3,7 million people are exposed to communicable diseases such as typhoid and diarrhoea due to critical water shortages across the country. According to the United Nations Office for Coordination for Humanitarian Affairs, cases of typhoid and diarrhoea were on the rise in Harare and Bulawayo as a…
No lessons learnt from 2008 cholera epidemic

Giving a cholera update at a media briefing in Harare yesterday, the Health ministry’s deputy cholera incident manager, Stephen Karimu, said the country was beginning to witness a positive trajectory in the cholera outbreak with cases of fatalities going down.