Paul Nyathi|In the middle of contracting positions by the Ministry of Education and The Ministry of Health on claims that at least two school children have died due to the ravaging cholera outbreak, latest information indicates that a school head in Glen View succumbed to the disease on Wednesday morning and too the death toll from the epidemic to 21.

Health minister Obadiah Moyo confirmed the incident during a special meeting with various ministries as government sort to find a solution to the epidemic.

“We have just held a special meeting so that we come up with proper coordination in trying to resolve the crisis. This outbreak is not just of cholera but typhoid as well,” said the minister.

“I would want to confirm that a teacher has passed on in Glen View. It’s actually a Headmaster who lost his life to cholera and that’s how serious it is,” the Health minister said.

“It is getting worse and the number of cases is going up.”

Primary and Secondary Education Minister Paul Mavhima earlier issued a contradicting statememt claiming that none of the twenty one victims so far were school children or anyone from within the schools in the country.

Moyo said number of suspected cases has risen to 3060 with 45 confirmed.

Most of the cases have been recorded in Harare, mostly in Glen View and Budiriro.

“We are a new team coming in and we don’t want to have this continuous cycle of outbreaks,” said minister Moyo.

“We are going to make sure Zimbabwe becomes clean again. We will look and correct water reticulation and this will be our main agenda.”

Moyo conceded a worry that the outbreak degenerate to 2008 levels when over 4,000 people died from the disease. He however, insisted that measures being put in place by the authorities should mitigate the possibility.