The Health Directorate in the Zambezi Region is on high alert following reports of Mpox and cholera in neighbouring Zambia. 

Its director, Woita Kapumburu, said authorities in the region have already assembled a team of experts to continuously monitor the situation at all entry points.

Kapumburu, responding to a press query, said his office is aware and has been closely following the happenings in neighbouring Zambia.

He said in consultation with his counterparts in Western Province of Zambia, where 32 cumulative cases of Mpox have been recorded, measures have been put in place.

Kapumburu has, however, disclosed that Zambian authorities have already quarantined all the patients to avoid further spread and that the situation is under control.

Zambia is currently grappling with 1,299 cumulative suspected cases of MPOX since the disease broke out in the country almost a year ago.

Namibia has so far recorded no cases.

Zambia recorded 209 cases and two deaths due to the cholera outbreak. Kapumburu said the reports are in Zambia's far north and pose little threat to Namibia.