About 10 persons have died following a cholera outbreak in Ndibokote village of Ezza Inyimagu in the Izzi Local Government Area of Ebonyi State.
Among the dead person is a nursing mother, who left behind a nine-month-old baby.
The Ebonyi State Health Commissioner Moses Ekuma confirmed this in a statement by the ministryโs spokesman Lucy Anyim.
Apart from the deceased, about 20 persons affected by the outbreak are responding to treatment as efforts have been made to put the disease under control from spreading around the community.