Nigeria: 90,000 Nigerians Contract Cholera in 2021 - MSF

8 November 2021

At least, more than 90,000 people in Nigeria have been infected in a nationwide cholera outbreak in 2021, according to a statement issued by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) on Monday.

The statement, which was jointly signed by two field communication officers, Hussein Amri and Abdulkareem Yakubu, said while nearly all of Nigeria's 36 states have reported cholera cases in 2021, the vast majority have been concentrated in the six northern states of Bauchi, Kano, Jigawa, Zamfara, Sokoto and Katsina.

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