By Deng Athian<\/p>\n
At least seven deaths due to cholera have been recorded in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, according to the Ministry of Health.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Among the deceased is a two-year-old boy.<\/p>\n State Minister of Health, Jeffer Riny, confirmed that the recorded deaths occurred within a total of 2,455 cases.<\/p>\n \u201cShortage of vaccines is worrying, but as a ministry, we informed the national Ministry of Health to avail the cholera vaccines, \u201cMinister Jeffer emphasised.<\/p>\n Earlier this month, National Minister of Health, Yolanda Awel Deng, launched a vaccination campaign targeting over 300,000 people against cholera in Unity State.<\/p>\n This brings the total number of counties included in the vaccination drive to four nationwide.<\/p>\n As of January 7, 2025, more than 17,581 cholera cases have been reported nationwide, with a case fatality rate of 1.5%.<\/p>\n With support from Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, over 1.3 million doses of vaccines have been secured to address the cholera outbreak in hotspots across the country.<\/p>\n The vaccination campaign in Juba commenced on January 8 and is scheduled to run for seven days.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Deng Athian At least seven deaths due to cholera have been recorded in Northern Bahr el Ghazal State, according to the Ministry of Health. Among the deceased is a two-year-old boy. State Minister of Health, Jeffer Riny, confirmed that the recorded deaths occurred within a total of 2,455 cases.[Read More…]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,79,111],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national","category-news","category-northern-bahr-el-ghazal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32522,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32521\/revisions\/32522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onecitizendaily.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}