The country will begin a nationwide inoculation campaign on Sunday amid surge in cases
Lebanon s caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan administers a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to a member of the healthcare staff at the Rafik Hariri Hospital in the capital Beirut as the country started its inoculation campaign on Sunday. AFP
Lebanon s caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab talks to reporters at the Rafik Hariri Hospital in the capital Beirut after the country started its Covid-19 inoculation campaign with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine on Sunday. AFP
A health worker gets the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against the coronavirus disease at Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, on Sunday. EPA
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Overwhelmed hospitals in Lebanon forced to treat Covid patients in cars
The country has seen a surge in coronavirus in recent weeks, with many angry at the lax rules over Christmas
Patients in Beirut are treated in their cars, after a hospital ran out of beds (Screengrab/Facebook) By Published date: 11 January 2021 14:57 UTC | Last update: 2 months 3 weeks ago
A video from Lebanon showing queues of patients waiting outside a hospital and being treated in their cars has been used to illustrate the dire situation the country is in following a surge in coronavirus cases.
In the video shared on Saturday from outside Al Roum hospital in Beirut, a doctor can be heard saying that staff have resorted to treating patients in their cars, as they have no capacity to treat them inside.
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