An arm of the Chinese government says the relief mission it sent to Mozambique after the cyclone there last month has given medical attention to 3,337 patients.

The Chinese Ministry of Emergency Management issued a written statement saying that by Monday its 65-strong mission had distributed 2,320 litres of water, 7,800 packets of food and 2,900 packets of medical supplies, and had disinfected an area of over 330,800 square metres.

The Chinese relief workers have joined their Mozambican and foreign counterparts, namely from the United Nations, in daily briefings about the relief effort, the Ministry of Emergency Management statement says.

Separately, Reuters reports that Cyclone Idai and the subsequent flooding killed 843 people in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Malawi, and that, according to Mozambique’s Health Ministry, a consequent outbreak of cholera in the country has killed one person and sickened 1,427 others.