Maputo, Feb. 12, 2026 (Lusa) - Mozambique has recorded 117 new cases of cholera in the current outbreak in 24 hours, with one death, bringing the total number of infected people since September to almost 5,000, with 63 deaths, according to official data accessed by Lusa on Thursday.
According to the latest disease bulletin from the National Directorate of Public Health, with data from 3 September to 9 February, of the total 4,843 cases of cholera recorded in this period, 2,051 were in Nampula province, with a cumulative total of 24 deaths, and 1,847 in Tete, with 28 deaths, in addition to 807 in Cabo Delgado, with eight deaths.
To a lesser extent, the cumulative total points to 79 cases of cholera and one death in the province of Zambézia, and 59 cases and two deaths in the province of Manica.
In the 24 hours prior to the closing of this bulletin (9 February), a further 117 cases and one death were confirmed in Nacala-Porto, Nampula province, with the overall national fatality rate at 1.3%.
In the previous cholera outbreak, according to data from the National Directorate of Public Health from 17 October 2024 to 20 July 2025, there were 4,420 infected people, of whom 3,590 were in Nampula province, and a total of 64 deaths.
The current outbreak has already exceeded the number of patients in half the time of the previous outbreak.
Mozambique vaccinated 1.7 million people against cholera in a five-day campaign in four provinces, exceeding the previously set target, the government announced on Tuesday at the end of the Cabinet meeting.
According to the spokesperson for the Cabinet, Inocêncio Impissa, in five days of the campaign, 1,790,410 people were vaccinated in the provinces of Cabo Delgado and Niassa in the north, and Sofala and Zambézia in central Mozambique, corresponding to 102% of the initially announced number vaccinated.
The Mozambican government wants to eliminate cholera "as a public health problem" in the country by 2030, according to the plan approved on 16 September by the Cabinet and valued at 31 billion meticais (€418.5 million).
The goal is "to have Mozambique free of cholera as a public health problem by 2030, where communities have access to safe water, sanitation and quality healthcare, achieved through multisectoral actions, coordinated and informed by scientific evidence," said Inocêncio Impissa at the time.
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