Lebanon announced a full lockdown for three weeks, including a night curfew, to stem a rise in COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals in a country already facing financial meltdown.
Several protesters in Lebanon’s second-largest city have been injured after security forces fired live ammunition during riots on Wednesday, the third consecutive day of protests against economic hardship during a nationwide coronavirus lockdown.
Live images broadcast on television showed armed officers wearing the uniform of Lebanon’s Internal Security Forces (ISF) fire shots at a large group of rioters who advanced on them throwing rocks in central Tripoli.
The ISF had said about the same time that nine members were injured, one critically, when a “military hand grenade” was thrown at them near the city’s Serail, an official building. Al Jazeera could not independently confirm the claim.
Lebanon s First Covid Vaccine Shipment to Arrive on Feb. 8 Published January 26th, 2021 - 09:40 GMT
A patient receives a Covid-19 vaccine at the Virginia Mason vaccine clinic hosted at the Amazon Meeting Center in downtown Seattle, Washington on January 24, 2021. Amazon is partnering with Virginia Mason for a one-day pop-up clinic on January 24. 2021 that aims to vaccinate 2,000 people at the company’s Meeting Center near downtown Seattle. Virginia Mason is handling vaccine administration, while Amazon is providing the location and help with logistics. Grant HINDSLEY / AFP
Lebanon’s coronavirus vaccination program will start with a shipment of just 50,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech developed vaccine, arriving Feb. 8, the head of the parliamentary health committee told The Daily Star Monday.
Lebanon announced a full lockdown for three weeks, including a night curfew, to stem a rise in COVID-19 infections that threatens to overwhelm hospitals in a country already facing financial meltdown.
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