Vanguard gathered that the state government had, on September 17, alerted residents of the state on the outbreak of the disease in Ijebu North local government area of the state, which later spread to Abeokuta North and Abeokuta South council areas.
Coker who disclosed while updating on the cholera outbreak after a stakeholders' engagement in Abeokuta, said"high level of open defecation, poor waste management and poor water source. Unfortunately, we have a report of 246 cases and there have been at least about 12 deaths, which brings us to fatality rate of 44.6 percent.
"It started in Ijebu North Local Government where we have 217 cases, but now we have more reports. We have some from Abeokuta North last week. We have two reports from Abeokuta South.
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