Kuwait’s Ministry of Health has confirmed the first case of cholera in the country, according to a statement released by the official KUNA news agency.
The Ministry identifies the case as a citizen «who had returned from a neighboring country», without giving further details in this regard, and who was suffering from «symptoms of the disease».
The health authorities have ruled out in the same note the possibility of a cholera outbreak in the country, like those occurring in Lebanon and Syria or Iraq, the latter bordering Kuwait.
However, they call «to take precautions and precautions for citizens and residents, and make sure to avoid unsafe food and water sources».
Syrian authorities have so far confirmed 1,492 cases of cholera, including 49 deaths, according to the latest balance sheet published by the Syrian Ministry of Health on Facebook.
However, the number is feared to be much higher, due to the rapid spread of the disease and several areas of the country being out of control of the authorities.
In fact, the World Health Organization (WHO) states in its latest situation report, dated November 14, that 35,569 suspected cases of cholera have been reported so far, with 1,491 confirmed cases and 92 deaths.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health, for its part, confirmed on Saturday five new cases of cholera in the country, bringing the total to 600 affected and 20 dead since the declaration of the first case in the north of the country on October 5.
On Friday, 15,549 people were vaccinated, bringing the total number to 391,666 people since the launch on November 12 of a three-week inoculation campaign, according to data collected by ‘L’Orient le Jour’.
