Number of people killed cholera outbreak registered in the city of Hammanskraal, about fifty kilometers north of Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, increased from twelve to fifteen, said Deputy Minister of Water and Sanitation David Makhlobo.

“Eat increase in mortality. Now their number is fifteen,” Mahlobo said at a press conference at the Jubilee hospital in Hammanskraal, in which he indicated that an investigation had been launched to determine the origin of the epidemic.

Earlier, Motalalate Modiba, spokesman for the Gauteng Provincial Health Department (where Pretoria and Johannesburg are located), confirmed that two people had died from the disease last night, bringing the total to twelve since last night. day 15

From this date, some 95 people According to the aforementioned department, they received treatment for the condition, which this Sunday confirmed the declaration of an epidemic in Hammanskraal.

The municipality of Tshwane, which includes Pretoria and Hammanskraal, is providing residents with water tanks after advising them not to drink tap water.

“Yes, we provide them with water tanks (…). Now they are twelve (dead), twelve people, and they are no longer ten; but I know, and it also breaks my heart when I hear it. I don’t want people to die, but we still don’t know what is the source of it,” councilor Rina Marks, a member of the Mayor’s Health Committee in Tshwan, said today, when the death toll was still at 12.

The National Institute for Infectious Diseases (NICD) has asked the people of Hammanskraal to boil water or treat it with lye before drinking it.