Cholera kills 60 in Cross River

• Published date: 22 January 2023
• Publication title: Nigeria - The Nation

SIXTY people have been killed in Obubura, a community in Cross River State as a result of cholera outbreak.

Report said there has been an increasing rate of mortality across 14 wards with over 200 infected persons.

The community depends on a river as the only source of water for cooking, bathing, washing, drinking and defecation.

Residents of the community are calling on the state government to come to their aid urgently.

The community's traditional ruler, Ohorodo I of Okum Kingdom, Ovan Robert, who frowned on the epidemic, called on the government to intercede by providing them with potable drinking water to avoid another outbreak.

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