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Vulnerable bearing the brunt of Beirut blast fallout
Updated / Thursday, 4 Feb 2021
12:54
A man walks by a building damaged by the 4 August blast in Beirut s Gemayzeh neighbourhood
The blast killed 200 people, injured more than 6,500 and flattened whole neighbourhoods including homes, schools and hospitals.
Close to 300,000 people were left homeless, with many more continuing to live in homes that have yet to be repaired. It is palpable. You can feel it. A lot of people are angry. A lot of people are upset, but people are also just exhausted
Irish woman Alison Heron, from north county Dublin has lived in the city of Beirut for the last two years, where she works as Trócaire’s Head of Programmes.
Beirut: Death stalks the corridors of Beirut s Rafik Hariri University Hospital, where losing multiple patients in one day to COVID-19 has become the new normal. On Friday, the mood among the staff was even more solemn as a young woman lost the battle with the virus. There was silence as the woman, barely in her 30s, drew her last breath. Then a brief commotion. The nurses frantically tried to resuscitate her. Finally, exhausted, they silently removed the oxygen mask and the tubes and covered the body with a brown blanket.
The woman, whose name is being withheld for privacy reasons, is one of 57 victims who died on Friday and more than 2,150 lost to the virus so far in Lebanon, a small country with a population of nearly 6 million that since last year has grappled with the worst economic and financial crisis in its modern history.
BEIRUT - Death stalks the corridors of Beirut's Rafik Hariri University Hospital, where losing multiple patients in one day to COVID-19 has become the new n
BY FAY ABUELGASIM
A medical staffer looks at a COVID-19 patient at the intensive care unit of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut, Lebanon, Friday, Jan. 22, 2021. Hospitals in Lebanon are reaching full capacity amid a dramatic surge in coronavirus cases across the crisis-hit Mediterranean nation even amid strict lockdown. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BEIRUT (AP) Death stalks the corridors of Beirut’s Rafik Hariri University Hospital, where losing multiple patients in one day to COVID-19 has become the new normal. On Friday, the mood among the staff was even more solemn as a young woman lost the battle with the virus.