2022 cholera outbreak in Lebanon

[7] On 22 October 2022, the Syria Ministry of Health reported a cholera outbreak in 13 of 14 governorates, with a total of 44 deaths and 942 confirmed cases.

He said that the outbreak was compounded by the ongoing civil war, as much of the already vulnerable population of Syria is reliant on unsafe water sources.

[9] On October 6, 2022, Firas al-Abiad, the head of the Health Ministry of Lebanon, announced that the country has detected its first case of cholera since 1993.

The case, recorded on the previous day, was from the northern province of Akkar, and the infected person was a Syrian national receiving treatment.

[16] According to L'orient-Le Jour, the response of the Lebanese government is based on three main pillars - raising awareness of sanitary measures, providing clean water to all households on a permanent basis, and ensuring safe wastewater treatment and disposal.

[17] The Lebanese Health Minister said that for the government, "the primary issue is prevention that contributes to limiting the spread of the pandemic.