Daily cholera update and alerts, 25 Apr 2009

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* Please note that daily information collection is a challenge due to communication and staff constraints. On-going data cleaning may result in an increase or decrease in the numbers.

Any change will then be explained.

** Daily information on new deaths should not imply that these deaths
occurred in cases reported that day. Therefore daily CFRs >100% may
occasionally result

A. Highlights of the day:

– 18 Cases and 0 deaths added today (in comparison with 48 cases and 5 deaths yesterday)

– Cumulative cases 97 185

– Cumulative deaths 4 244 of which 2 606 are community deaths

– 63.3.0 % of the reporting centres affected have reported today 38 out of 60 affected reporting centres

– Cumulative Institutional Case Fatality Rate = 1.7%

– Daily Institutional CFR = 0.0 %.

– Data Cleaning

– Chitungwiza data was adjusted after data cleaning exercise from the 10th to 25 th April

Source: Government of Zimbabwe; World Health Organization (WHO)

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