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== Efforts to reduce the cholera outbreak == | == Efforts to reduce the cholera outbreak == | ||
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On 29th December 2017 [[President Lungu]]<ref name=CUT>{{cite news|url= http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/zambia-deploys-army-fight-cholera-outbreak-171230190812235.html |publisher= aljazeera.com |title=Zambia deploys army to fight cholera outbreak |date=30 December 2017|accessdate=5 January 2018}}</ref> dispatched Zambia's security wings to help fight a cholera outbreak, which had already killed over 41 people in the capital city, and affected more than 1,500 others since September. In a Facebook post late on Friday, Lungu said "all three wings of the Defence Force" had been deployed "to escalate efforts" to minimise the spread of the disease.<ref name=CUTG>{{cite news|url= https://m.facebook.com/EdgarChagwaLungu/posts/1676327289090156|publisher= Facebook.com |title= Edgar Chagwa Lungu Facebook post|date=29 December 2017|accessdate=5 January 2018}}</ref> | On 29th December 2017 [[President Lungu]]<ref name=CUT>{{cite news|url= http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/zambia-deploys-army-fight-cholera-outbreak-171230190812235.html |publisher= aljazeera.com |title=Zambia deploys army to fight cholera outbreak |date=30 December 2017|accessdate=5 January 2018}}</ref> dispatched Zambia's security wings to help fight a cholera outbreak, which had already killed over 41 people in the capital city, and affected more than 1,500 others since September. In a Facebook post late on Friday, Lungu said "all three wings of the Defence Force" had been deployed "to escalate efforts" to minimise the spread of the disease.<ref name=CUTG>{{cite news|url= https://m.facebook.com/EdgarChagwaLungu/posts/1676327289090156|publisher= Facebook.com |title= Edgar Chagwa Lungu Facebook post|date=29 December 2017|accessdate=5 January 2018}}</ref> | ||
