Lebanon to get first batch of Covid-19 vaccines in two months, says minister
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A customer wearing a protective face mask shops inside a grocery store in Beirut, Lebanon December 7, 2020. Picture taken December 7, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir
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Issam Abdallah
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Lebanon is expected to sign a deal this week for supplies of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine and is set to receive the first batch eight weeks after that, the caretaker health minister said.
A surge in infections is straining Lebanon's healthcare system which has been struggling amid a financial crisis and after a huge port explosion in August smashed up hospitals in Beirut.