Patients receive treatment in a field hospital in Bebnine, in the northern region of Akkar, on Oct. 25, 2022. (Credit: Michel Hallak/L'Orient Today)
BEIRUT — The Ministry of Public Health announced Friday night that Lebanon recorded three new cholera cases in the previous 24 hours, raising the total case count to 371.
The report also recorded a new death, bringing the total number of cholera deaths to 16.
On Thursday, caretaker Interior Minister Bassam Mawlawi issued a statement asking governors "of all districts" to "fully monitor" the implementation of water treatment and "tighten their supervision on all sources of water."
Mawlawi also said a daily report should be submitted to the Branch of the Management of the Risks of Crisis, affiliated with the cabinet, that "should include the data taken from every governorate."
This is Lebanon's first cholera outbreak since 1993.