HEALTH Minister Elijah Muchima has disclosed that the country is expected to receive three million doses of cholera vaccines from China next month. Muchima has urged the public to ensure high hygiene levels to help maintain the current status quo where the country has not yet recorded any cholera case. Speaking during a media briefing yesterday, Muchima revealed that his ministry would start distributing chlorine to sensitive areas. “We have left overs of chlorine from the last cholera mitigation and we have got also some tablets. We wound want this chlorine and other tablets to be given in sensitive areas. We need also to ensure that there is water and sanitation and hygiene interventions, some of those are the ones...

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