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Out in Mutare, the main city in Manicaland's eastern highlands, it is the same story - more infections from cholera and a city struggling to serve their residents with the most basic of needs - clean water.

What’s more, medical providers have “typically very weak” cybersecurity systems, even as online scammers have stepped up their efforts to steal patient data, added Rich Quattrocchi, a vice president at Mutare, an Illinois-based cybersecurity software company.

Meanwhile, Mr. Quattrocchi of the cybersecurity firm Mutare pointed to a recent report from Agari and PhishLabs that found voicemail or “vishing” attacks on medical workers succeed 34% of the time and have increased 550% since this time last year.

MUTARE, ZIMBABWE—Normally, the Murahwa Green Market here in this small city near the border with Mozambique bustles with welders, carpenters, and mechanics selling their services.

In the eastern city of Mutare, hundreds of people gathered close together under trees to attend church services without masks or social distancing.