Such outbreaks are common as local authorities are battling to provide potable water and sanitation facilities in the city, where slums without running water have mushroomed and whose infrastructure is falling apart due to years of neglect.
Some suburbs go for weeks without running water forcing residents to fetch water from unsafe sources.
"As of this morning we had 18 deaths," Clemence Duri, Harare city's acting director for health services told AFP.
He said at least 400 people from the southwestern townships of Mbare, Budiriro and Glen View had been admitted at health facilities after being found to be suffering from one of the two diseases.
Tests on water samples from some wells and boreholes showed the water was contaminated with cholera and typhoid-causing bacteria.
"We have since decommissioned the boreholes and closed the wells," he said.
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