April 13, 2021
Nearly 2,500 new Covid-19 cases are confirmed each day in Lebanon, an untenable number in a country reeling from concurrent economic, political, and security crises and still recovering from the August 2020 Beirut port explosion. Just weeks after emerging from one of the most extreme lockdowns in the world, the Lebanese government ordered yet another one on April 3, 2021 Easter weekend. For many Lebanese, this most recent lockdown was the most challenging to date. Two of the country’s four main power generation plants shut down after running out of oil, leading to daily power outages of up to 22 hours. Ever since the prime minister resigned in August 2020, negotiations for the formation of a new cabinet have stalled, and the caretaker government has languished. A complex web of state, nonstate, and international actors exert influence over daily life in Lebanon.
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of routine immunization services in Lebanon
Ziad Mansour,
Jinan Arab ,
Randa Hamadeh,
Bernard Gerbaka, Roles Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Emergencies, Department of Pediatrics, Hôtel-Dieu de France, Beirut, Lebanon ⨯
Abdul Rahman Bizri Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing
Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon ⨯
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of routine immunization services in Lebanon
Ziad Mansour,
Introduction
The global abrupt progression of the COVID-19 pandemic may disrupt critical life-saving services such as routine immunization (RI), thus increasing the susceptibility of countries to outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases (VPDs). Being endemic to several infectious