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Le Drian did not name the people targeted as he announced the measures on Thursday. But his comments were the first official confirmation from the French government that it has imposed sanctions against Lebanese officials for their failure to reform the country in the wake of the deadly explosion at Beirut’s port in August last year. “On a national basis, we have started to implement restrictions on access to French territory against personalities involved in the current political blockage or involved in corruption,” Le Drian said in a statement following a visit to Malta. “We reserve the right to adopt additional measures against all those preventing an exit from the crisis, and we will do so in coordination with our international partners,” he added. ....
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The World Bank has threatened to suspend financing for coronavirus vaccines in Lebanon over what it said were violations by legislators who were vaccinated inside Parliament. The comments by the international lender on Tuesday came as frustration grew among some residents and doctors that the national plan that requires people to get vaccinated at predetermined centres could be riddled with violations and favouritism. Lebanon received its first batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine – 28,000 doses – this month with financial aid from the World Bank, which said it would monitor to ensure the shot went to those most in need. In its first operation funding the purchase of COVID-19 vaccines, the lender reallocated $34m to help Lebanon inoculate more than two million people. ....
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. ....