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U.A.E. and Israel have world s fastest vaccination programs what can the West learn from them? Richa Syal © KARIM SAHIB/AFP via Getty Images A woman waits for her turn at a COVID-19 vaccination centre set up at the Dubai International Financial Center in the Gulf emirate of Dubai, on Feb. 3. The United Arab Emirates began vaccinating in December 2020 and has since administered more than four million vaccine shots.
On Dec. 19, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu grinned on live television as he received his first COVID-19 vaccine, signalling the start of what would become the world s fastest inoculation campaign.
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After an agonising year fighting Covid-19, Lebanon’s healthcare system can at last see light at the end of the tunnel.
Healthcare workers are days away from being vaccinated against “one of the cruellest diseases they’ve ever treated”, said Eveline Hitti, chairwoman of the department of emergency medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Centre
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More than 28,000 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine arrived on Saturday. More batches will follow this month and later in the year. In all, 2.1 million doses are expected.
“First doses will start on Sunday in limited numbers and will expand on Monday to several centres all over Lebanon,” said Abdul Rahman Bizri, head of Lebanon’s national coronavirus committee. They will be administered with priority given to health workers and high-risk groups as a start, he said.