Corona counter at the closing threshold: 2000 injured and 21 dead … And the vaccine!

Al-Akhbar wrote:

As the country prepares for a fourteen-day shutdown, the news from the districts does not seem reassuring. Every day, there are towns and villages that enter a “critical situation” with the announcement of a high number of wounded compared to the number of their neighbors. Yesterday, the first announcers about reaching the brink of danger were several towns and villages in the Al-Kharroub region, after the increasing number of infections and deaths in them as a result of the coronavirus infection. In this context, 7 localities in the region (Jadra, Burja, Dalhoun, Shehim, Daraya, Mazboud and Naameh) during the last twenty-four hours registered 45 injuries, of which Burja had the highest number of them, with 16 injured, followed by Naameh with 12 wounded. As for the biggest fear there, it is the number of deaths recorded by these villages, which reached 11 deaths in Shehim. After the region, the count in Zgharta also advanced, with 34 positive cases registered. And in these two districts, the meter was getting heavier day by day in other districts, and it was led by Akkar, Minya, Tripoli, Hermel, Baalbek, Matn and others.

This exacerbated reality, with the start of the seasonal flu season, is reflected in the figures kept by the daily Corona count, which yesterday registered 1904 injuries, most of them contacts (1899 injured) and 21 deaths, which is the first time that the death count reaches this number. As for critical cases, they increase day by day, and yesterday there were 307 injured; Of these, 131 injuries were connected to ventilators. In this context, the total number of injured in the country reached 44,914. This “brings us face to face with a new challenge, which is how to reduce the number of injuries,” according to Public Health Minister Hamad Hassan. From here on, what is required of citizens has been doubled, as it is no longer enough, and at a time when “the battle requires that the citizen be an armed and trained soldier, today he must also be resistant and proactive, that it is not enough to have knowledge and successful medicine, but to be has decision and determination in the confrontation ». During the inauguration of the new departments at the Baalbek Government Hospital, Hassan referred to the “strategic plan for health development prepared by the ministry”, and indicated that within the plan “the ministry communicated with the Council for Development and Reconstruction to expedite the request and dissolution of supplies of equipment and equipment for government hospitals, as an urgent need today ”.

In addition, the issue of the Corona virus vaccine continues to interact, while Minister Hassan announced that Lebanon “is taking safe steps to ensure the vaccine and that it will be one of the first countries to receive the Pfizer vaccine.” Doctors asked the ministry not to rush to import the vaccine. In this context, the Health Committee of the Assembly of Physicians asked the Ministry of Health “not to rush to import the vaccine until its positive results and possible negative results are shown.” Dr. Ismail Sukkariyah, head of the Health Authority – Health is a right and a dignity – had preceded the meeting and had asked the Ministry of Health to be patient and not rush to seize a quantity of the vaccine, criticizing at the same time “Transfer funds to reserve a vaccine that is still being tested at a time when the health sector is experiencing a financial crisis. big”.
On the other hand, the Minister of Defense, Zaina Aker, issued a decision to suspend the sessions and administrative work in the military courts and the departments associated with them during the entire period of total closure, with the exception of “resolving requests for the release of detainees and detained and examine urgent cases, urgent and in cases of extreme need “.