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Cholera kills 150 people, infects 10,000 in Tanzania, WHO now warns

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 Tanzania's newly elected president John Magufuli delivers a speech during the swearing in ceremony in Dar es Salaam, on November 5, 2015. John Magufuli who won in the October 25 poll with over 58 percent of votes cemented the long-running Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) party's firm grip on power. [AFP PHOTO]

DAR ES SALAAM - A major cholera outbreak in Tanzania has now infected nearly 10,000 people and killed 150, the World Health Organisation said Friday, voicing concern that predicted flooding risked spreading the disease internationally.

Since the beginning of the outbreak in August, at least 9,871 people have become infected and 150 have died, the UN health agency said, citing laboratory confirmed figures from Tanzanian health authorities.

 That marks a doubling of the figures provided a month ago, when WHO put the number of cases at 4,922, including 74 deaths.

Meanwhile, six government officials in Tanzania were jailed this week after turning up late for a meeting amid a government campaign to tighten standards and tackle corruption.

“The officials spent six hours in custody following the order by the district commissioner,” the Uhuru newspaper reported Friday, in an editorial praising the move.

“They showed up two hours earlier the following day,” it added. The local government official ordered his six colleagues be locked up after they turned up over three hours late for a meeting he had called at 8am on land disputes. - AFP/ Reuters

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