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Refugees and migrant workers in Lebanon are at risk of missing out on Covid-19 shots, a rights group said on Tuesday.
Government data shows the vaccination rate among Palestinians, Syrians and migrant workers, who collectively make up a third of Lebanon’s population, is so low that it could jeopardise nationwide efforts to fight the disease, Human Rights Watch reported.
"As we know from a year of Covid prevention measures, none of us are safe until we all are. A failure to implement a vaccination plan that reaches a third of the population grossly undermines Lebanon’s nationwide efforts," Nadia Hardman, a refugee and migrant rights researcher at Human Rights Watch, told