Tuesday, 16 February, 2021 - 06:45
Health Minister Hassan launched vaccination drives in several governorates on Monday. (NNA) Beirut - Asharq Al-Awsat
Lebanon is expected to receive enough COVID-19 vaccine doses to inoculate 50 percent of its population in 2021.
“We are committed to measures so that 80 percent of citizens receive the vaccine. The quantities of vaccines that will gradually arrive in our country this year are sufficient to vaccinate 50 percent of citizens,” head of Lebanon’s Doctors Syndicate Sharaf Abu Sharaf confirmed Monday. The remaining doses will be received next year in the hope that we will reach community immunity by mid-2021, he added.
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Pfizer, BioNTech revealed that their Covid vaccine is 95% effective but requires to be stored at below freezing temperatures. Pfizer was the one behind the changes in Lebanese laws regarding the importation of the Vaccine
Lebanon received its first batch of coronavirus vaccines Saturday ahead of a nationwide campaign to start vaccinations in the tiny Mediterranean country, which has seen a sharp rise in cases and fatalities in recent weeks.
The 28,500 Pfizer doses from Brussels arrived on a plane of Lebanon’s national carrier and were to be taken to the Health Ministry’s warehouse, state-run National News Agency reported. From there, the vaccines will be sent to other parts of the country.
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In this photo illustration taken in Ankara, Turkey on December 28, 2020 Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine logo is displayed on a screen with a syringe in the front [Ali Balıkçı - Anadolu Agency] February 14, 2021 at 1:15 pm
Lebanon s national vaccination campaign against the coronavirus pandemic began Sunday,
Anadolu Agency reports.
Mahmoud Hasson, the head of the intensive care unit at the Rafik Hariri Hospital in Beirut, and actor Salah Tizani, 93, received the first shots.
Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab and Health Minister Hamad Hassan were present during the inoculation.
Lebanon succeeded in containing the virus during the pandemic’s early months, but the numbers began to increase following a massive blast in the capital’s port in August