The Haitian Health Ministry said on Sunday that of a total 52,715 recorded cases, 20,687 had been treated in hospitals, DPA reported.
The UN says the cholera outbreak, first seen on October 19 in the lower Artibonite region, north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, is threatening hundreds of thousands more in the country.
The disease continues to claim lives in Haiti ten months after an earthquake killed 230,000 people on the island.
The United Nations says over one million quake survivors are most at risk as they still live in dirty, overcrowded camps that lack sanitation facilities.
The World Health Organization has also warned that the deadly illness will inevitably spread to other countries in the Caribbean.'
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