• On 5 December, the President of Malawi declared the cholera outbreak a public health emergency due to the surge of complex cholera cases. On 14 December, Ministry of Health (MoH) reported 12,854 cumulative cases across all 29 districts, out of which 14 districts reporting cases in the last 14 days, 133 new cases, 379 deaths (3 new), and a case fatality rate of 2.95%.
• Preliminary results from the Ministry of Health (MoH) indicate that the cholera vaccination campaign, which took place from 28 November to 2 December, reached more than 2 million people, representing 71.6% out of the targeted 2.9 million people.
• DG ECHO has provided EUR 540,000 through UNICEF to support health and emergency water and sanitation services in the affected areas to reduce mortality and the spread of the disease. This comes in addition to the EUR 100,000 for the Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) of the International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC).
Source: European Commission’s Directorate-General for European Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid Operations