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At the vulnerable age of 93, popular Lebanese actor Salah Tizany was the perfect person to kick off the country s coronavirus inoculation campaign.
Holding his cane with one hand and waving his index with the other, he said on Sunday at the public Rafik Hariri University Hospital that he was proud to be “number one”.
“I am very happy to be the first person to take the vaccine,” he told The National. “I want to encourage people who are scared to take the shot.”
Lebanon rolled out the vaccination drive nearly one year to the day after the country recorded its first Covid-19 case.
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