Malawi declares end of country's deadliest cholera outbreak

Violett Motta, a health surveillance assistant in Malawi, prepares disinfectant at a health center in response to a cholera outbreak in Blantyre, November 16, 2022. [Reuters]

Malawi has declared the end of the country's worst cholera outbreak, which began in March 2022 and killed nearly 2,000 people.

In a statement Monday, the Ministry of Health said the country had registered no cases or deaths from cholera in 26 of Malawi's 29 health districts in the past four weeks. Some health experts, however, said the outbreak could resurface if the country failed to address sanitation problems that caused it.