Mozambique Prepares for Cholera After Cyclone Wreaks Havoc

Mozambique Prepares for Cholera After Cyclone Wreaks Havoc
Evacuees from Buzi vilage carry their belongings as they arrive at a displacement center near the aiport, after Cyclone Idai, in Beira, Mozambique, March 25, 2019. REUTERS/Siphiwe Sibeko
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BEIRA, Mozambique—Rescue teams in Mozambique moved hundreds of people displaced by Cyclone Idai’s massive and deadly flooding to safer shelters on March 25, while the government made preparations for a cholera outbreak that it says is inevitable amid the devastation.

In areas west of the port city of Beira, hundreds of people were trapped for more than a week after Idai hit, surviving in vast tracts of submerged land with no access to clean water and shrinking food supplies.