MPONGWE District on the Copperbelt has recorded 28 cholera cases and five suspected cholera-related deaths, with the local authority now planning to ban public gatherings as part of additional measures to contain the outbreak. Meanwhile, Mpongwe Council Chairperson Chrispine Tembo says the council has closed bars, taverns and butcheries that were operating under poor sanitary conditions and stopped the sale of street food. Speaking in an interview, Tembo disclosed that 18 patients had so far been discharged, adding that the council was also considering temporarily closing schools, except for examination classes. He said the council had held a stakeholders’ meeting involving investors and commercial farmers to sensitise them about the suspected outbreak and the measures being implemented. “We had a...