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The cholera outbreak in Jajpur district has worsened over the weekend, with the death toll rising to seven and more than 1,500 people reported ill due to acute diarrhoea disease. Reportedly, the outbreak, which began earlier this month, has now spread to neighbouring districts, prompting a statewide high alert.
Sources reported that the condition remains grim in Jajpur district, where hundreds of patients continue to be admitted daily at government hospitals in Dharmasala, Badachana, Rasulpur, and Jajpur town.
Health department sources informed that two more patients undergoing treatment succumbed to the infection on Sunday morn...