About 20 elderly people living in a nursing home in northern Lebanon were hospitalized Sunday with possible severe symptoms of cholera, medical sources confirmed.
The elderly, residents of Abi Samra, are suffering from severe coughing and vomiting and have been transferred to the Government Hospital in Tripoli in Red Cross ambulances.
The director of the medical center, Naser Adra, has informed ‘L’Orient le Jour’ that the twenty residents have been placed in isolation and are being treated «as if they were sick with cholera».
The results of the tests carried out will be known on Monday.
Lebanon has so far confirmed a total of 600 affected and 20 dead since the declaration, last October 5, of the first case in the north of the country.
On Friday, 15,549 people were vaccinated, bringing the total number to 391,666 people since the launch of a three-week inoculation campaign on November 12.
Outgoing Health Minister Firas Abiad has indicated that the number of people vaccinated so far «is higher than the number expected to be reached during this phase.» The vaccination campaign is expected to reach some 600,000 people in total.
