There has been a significant decline in the number of new cholera cases in South Sudan in recent weeks, The Medical Charity, MSF, has said.

It says the reduction in the cases has caused it to scale down its cholera operations.

In a statement, MSF’s head of mission in South Sudan, Brian Moller, says the recent decline in the number of new cases of cholera suggests that the outbreak is now under control.

Since the cholera outbreak was declared on the 15th of May, MSF says its teams have treated 3,300 patients in Juba, Torit and Wau-Shilluk.

It says that 5,561 cholera cases have officially been recorded countrywide in the current outbreak.

The health group says it will now redirect its resources towards other unmet health needs in the country.

At least 20 people died of the waterborne disease this year.