The coronavirus pandemic has disrupted vaccination campaigns around the world, leaving kids vulnerable to diseases like measles and polio.

Stephanie Murphy recently travelled with the Red Cross in Mozambique, where two cyclones left more than 1,000 dead and caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.

Health authorities are racing to vaccinate people against cholera, after more than 500 cases and one death.

The cholera cases have been discovered in the port city of Beira, whose half-million residents and especially those in crowded, poor neighbourhoods are at particular risk.

Cholera cases in Mozambique among survivors of a devastating cyclone have shot up to 139, officials said,

The resumption of the Saudi-led air strike campaign on Hodeidah could create ideal conditions for a catastrophic new cholera outbreak in Yemen, Save the Children has warned.

Untreated water can come with a host of potential health risks, including E. coli, Giardia or Cryptosporidium, microscopic parasites that cause diarrhea.

The majority of Yemen's cholera deaths have occurred in rebel-controlled areas cut off from supplies by Saudi-led airstrikes and blockades, researchers found.

Cholera is a diarrheal disease that can kill within hours.

A plane filled with medical supplies and water purification tablets took off from Pierre Elliott Trudeau Airport Tuesay morning headed to Port-Au-Prince, Haiti.