2021-01-24 17:06:41 GMT2021-01-25 01:06:41(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIRUT, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) Lebanon is expected to receive the first batch of vaccines against COVID-19 by mid-February. However, local health experts expressed concerns about the country s ability to properly organize the vaccination campaign. Logistics is a main challenge, knowing that the Pfizer vaccine which Lebanon will receive by mid February is thermosensitive, Firas Abiad, director-general of Rafic Hariri University Hospital, told Xinhua.
Abiad said that Lebanon needs to prepare centers all over the country to manage the vaccines and train medical staff to be capable of vaccinating the public in the shortest period of time.
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The Lebanese government is enforcing its toughest lockdown yet a 24-hour curfew for 11 days. But hospitals are still buckling under the weight of patients.
Beirut, Lebanon – Lebanon has extended a hard lockdown by two weeks amid record-breaking numbers of COVID-related deaths and an unabated surge in the number of new cases that have stretched the country’s healthcare system to its limits.
Meanwhile, a top health official has announced plans for a roll-out of vaccinations in the crisis-hit country that he said would see some three million of the country’s inhabitants – roughly half the population – receive the jab by the end of the year.
Assem Araji, the head of Lebanon’s parliamentary health committee, announced that the first batch of doses from United States-based Pfizer would arrive in the first week of February and that priority would be given to healthcare workers and those over the age of 74.
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