
The number of cholera cases in Lebanon has exceeded 1,400 with over 17 deaths according to the latest official figures, while the President of the United Nations General Assembly, Csaba Kőrösi, said Wednesday in a statement to Asharq Al-Awsat he was very confident that cholera will not become a major epidemic in the country.
Lebanon has recorded more than 1,400 cholera cases and 17 deaths as of Tuesday, since the first case appeared in the country on the fifth of October, according to the “World Health Organization” (WHO).