By Dorrothy Moyo| The Health Minister, Obadiah Moyo has said the cholera death toll has remained at 49.

“The death toll remains at 49,” he was quoted by the state media.

He continued saying, “we continue to receive further assistance from our partners, amongst them the Chinese, who donated $200 000 towards the cause over the weekend.”

“Otherwise we continue to ensure that the infected receive treatment.”

Meanwhile speaking in Parliament last week (See video), Moyo said as of September 26, 2018, over 10 000 persons had presented to the screening and treatment centres.

He said 6 645 suspected cases had been reported, with 96 of them testing positive to Vibrio cholerae, while 49 had died.

He said, “we realise that this is a unique outbreak from those experienced earlier in that there have been high levels of resistance to antibiotics commonly available, high fatalities despite the outbreak being predominantly urban and in that it is happening in the same areas that are heavily affected by typhoid and that raises the possibility of dual infections,” he said.