Lebanon launches vaccination campaign to combat cholera

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Lebanon launches vaccination campaign to combat cholera

STORY: Lebanon launches vaccination campaign to combat cholera DATELINE: Nov. 14, 2022 LENGTH: 00:01:16 LOCATION: Beirut CATEGORY: HEALTH SHOTLIST: 1. various of people administering the cholera vaccine 2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic): FIRAS ABIAD, Lebanese Health Minister 3. various of an instruction board to limit the spread of cholera STORYLINE: Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health announced on Saturday that 26,276 people were vaccinated on the first day of the national vaccine program which kicked off the same day in different parts of the country. The country was hit hard by the disease over the last several weeks, the health ministry announced in a statement. The vaccination campaign began in the morning in the governorates of North, Akkar, Bekaa, and Baalbek-Hermel, and will last three weeks in the first phase, said the statement. A total of 600,000 doses of vaccine will be administered in the coming weeks, the local news website L'Orient Today cited caretaker Health Minister Firas Abiad inspecting the va

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