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Lebanon Launches Its COVID-19 Inoculation Campaign on Valentine s Day Published February 10th, 2021 - 06:11 GMT
Members of Lebanon s Shiite Hezbollah movement s Islamic health unit, transport the coffin of a Lebanese Christian woman who died of the COVID-19 disease, out of a church to be inhumated in a nearby cemetary, near the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, on February 5, 2021. Mahmoud ZAYYAT / AFP
Highlights On Sunday, the vaccination campaign will be launched from the Grand Serail.
Lebanon will launch its COVID-19 inoculation campaign on Sunday, a day after the first Pfizer jabs are set to arrive in the country, the media office of caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab said Tuesday.
BEIRUT, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon will gradually ease strict coronavirus lockdown in force since Jan. 11 in four two-week stages starting from Monday, the country s caretaker government said on Friday.
Lebanon imposed a 24-hour curfew when cases spiked after lax measures over the Christmas holiday period sent infections soaring and pushed hospital capacities to the limit.
Lebanon is dealing with a devastating financial crisis that has paralysed banks and the lockdown faced resistance amid concerns over soaring unemployment, inflation and poverty.
In Tripoli, Lebanon s poorest city, protests culminated last week in the burning of the municipality building as demonstrators clashed with police.
Lebanon to ease coronavirus lockdown in four stages from Monday Reuters 2/5/2021
BEIRUT, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Lebanon will gradually ease strict coronavirus lockdown in force since Jan. 11 in four two-week stages starting from Monday, the country s caretaker government said on Friday.
Lebanon imposed a 24-hour curfew when cases spiked after lax measures over the Christmas holiday period sent infections soaring and pushed hospital capacities to the limit.
Lebanon is dealing with a devastating financial crisis that has paralysed banks and the lockdown faced resistance amid concerns over soaring unemployment, inflation and poverty.
In Tripoli, Lebanon s poorest city, protests culminated last week in the burning of the municipality building as demonstrators clashed with police.