{"id":446772,"date":"2023-05-19T06:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T10:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=446772"},"modified":"2023-05-19T06:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T10:00:36","slug":"104-killed-in-cholera-outbreak-ethiopia-health-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/446772","title":{"rendered":"104 killed in cholera outbreak: Ethiopia Health Minister\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At least 104 people have been killed in a nationwide cholera disease outbreak, the Ethiopia Minister of Health Lia Tadesse disclosed on Thursday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Presenting a report to the Ethiopian parliament, Lis stated a cholera outbreak which started last August and has continued up to present time has infected 6,592 people of which 104 were fatalities, reported state media outlet Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation (EBC).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lia said cholera outbreak has occurred in 25 districts in Oromia region, three districts in Somali region, 21 districts in Southern region and four districts in Somali region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She further said 6,445 patients have so far recovered from cholera infection, but 45 other cholera patients are still receiving medical treatment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Earlier this month, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) warned around seven million Ethiopians are currently living in cholera prone areas of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least 104 people have been killed in a nationwide cholera disease outbreak, the Ethiopia Minister of Health Lia Tadesse disclosed on Thursday.\u00a0 Presenting a report to the Ethiopian parliament, Lis stated a cholera outbreak which started last August and has continued up to present time has infected 6,592 people of which 104 were fatalities, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":270,"featured_media":439460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5845],"class_list":["post-446772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news","tag-ethiopia-agoa-pm-abiyu-s"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/co.jpg?fit=1024%2C768&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1Se0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=446772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":446773,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/446772\/revisions\/446773"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/439460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=446772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=446772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=446772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}