The vaccination campaign in Lebanon resumed on Monday at 15 medical centres, with health care workers and staff at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital receiving their first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.
Lebanon administered its first jabs of the vaccine on Sunday, with an intensive care unit physician and a 93-year-old becoming the first two people to receive Pfizer-BioNTech doses.
The country launched its inoculation campaign a day after receiving the first batch of the 28,500 doses from Brussels, near where Pfizer has a manufacturing facility.
More Pfizer doses are scheduled to arrive in the coming weeks, in addition to vaccines from other companies.
Lebanon, a country of six million people including a million Syrian refugees, has registered 339,112 cases and just under 4,000 deaths.
The country has been under lockdown since mid-January, after an unprecedented spike in cases blamed on holiday gatherings forced overwhelmed hospitals to turn away patients.
Lebanon’s political, economic and health crises have converged, deepening the country’s troubles and public anger and mistrust of the ruling elites.
Associated Press
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