The Lebanese Ministry of Health has already recorded 652 cholera infections since the outbreak in October of the first outbreak in 30 years in the country, although the death toll has remained stable at 20 in recent hours, according to the latest balance sheet released late Saturday by the authorities.
The four new cases registered during the last 24 hours and the more than 4,000 cases still suspected but unverified, continue to highlight the seriousness of an outbreak that has led the Lebanese authorities to carry out a three-week vaccination campaign, coinciding with the receipt of 600,000 doses of vaccines offered by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
On Friday, 8,802 people were vaccinated, bringing the total number of people immunized since the launch of the campaign on November 12 to 476,918.
Authorities remind that the crisis is not yet over, especially in the most affected areas, in Akkar and the north, and to a lesser extent in Mount Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley and Baalbek-Hermel.
About 200 people, including administrative staff and nurses, equipped by the Lebanese Red Cross (LRC), were deployed in the morning in several villages of Akkar, where vaccination is being carried out according to a program determined by the Ministry of Health, in coordination with UNICEF and the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
