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Lebanon already registers more than 650 confirmed cases of cholera, although with no new deaths to regret

MADRID, 4 Dic.

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Lebanon already registers more than 650 confirmed cases of cholera, although with no new deaths to regret

MADRID, 4 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Lebanese Ministry of Health has already registered 652 cholera infections since the outbreak in October of the first outbreak in 30 years in the country, although the number of deaths has remained stable at 20 in the last hours, according to the latest balance given to know late last Saturday by the authorities.

The four new ones registered during the last 24 hours and the more than 4,000 still suspected but unverified cases continue to show 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 to 476,918 people immunized since the launch of the campaign on November 12.

The authorities recall that the crisis is not over yet, 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.

Nearly 200 people, including administrators and nurses, equipped by the Lebanese Red Cross (CRL), deployed in the morning to various towns in 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).