There are 19 deaths and 283 cases registered due to the cholera outbreak in Angola

MADRID Jan. 14 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Ministry of Health of Angola has raised this Tuesday to 283 cases registered due to the cholera outbreak registered in the north of the country’s coast, which has already left 19 dead, a week after the confirmation of the first case.

As reported by the Ministry on its Facebook account, nearly twenty people have died so far among the 283 who have tested positive for cholera since the first case was detected at the beginning of last week.

Angolan health authorities have indicated that cases of cholera have been detected in a total of 129 men and 154 women aged between two and 73 years, 19 of them have occurred in the last 24 hours.

The majority of cases are concentrated in the municipality of Cacuaco, in the province of Luanda, where a total of 33 patients are admitted to two different hospital centers.

The MINSA bulletin specifies that cholera could have appeared for the first time on December 31 of last year in a patient affected by vomiting and diarrhea.