Vaccinating 1.3 million people, Lebanon’s participation in the long-awaited vaccine: will full shutdown “hold out”?

Lebanon paid around $ 3.4 million to the “Kovacs” organization, which includes the World Health Organization and the International Vaccine Federation, to reserve its share of the vaccine that will be approved worldwide to tackle the Corona virus. . One million 365 thousand Lebanese citizens are expected to be vaccinated immediately after the official recognition of the first vaccine that demonstrates its effectiveness, which will not occur before the beginning of next year. Until then, the confrontation with the virus will be “long”, in the words of the adviser to the Minister of Health, Dr. Edmond Abboud, pointing out that the current total closure is nothing more than a “local” measure that reduces pressure on the health sector and achieves a kind of control and control of numbers. The daily injuries that reached yesterday, 1,163 cases (2 of them were expatriates) of the 7,788 scans (which is lower than the rates of scans that are performed during the rest of the week), according to figures from the Ministry of Health.

The latter announced the death of 11 people overnight, bringing the death toll to 817 victims, “including people from young age groups, including groups that do not suffer from chronic diseases,” according to Abboud, noting the importance of “taking the virus. really”.
The high injuries recorded in Lebanon for many weeks made it “lead” many countries in the world in terms of the total number of injuries that exceeded one hundred thousand, as it ranks 55th in the world (in two days, two ranks) ahead of China by six ranks and one place behind Egypt.
It draws attention to what Abboud refers to in terms of the importance of the general closure coinciding in public places with the taking of preventive measures within the same house, “we refer to the measures of spacing and frequent hand washing and the concern for not overcrowding and so on ”. Preventive measures.
On the surface, the last two days of total closure in which the country entered, seemed to have “changed”, as promised by the Minister of the Interior and Municipalities in the interim government, Mohamed Fahmy. As for the difference this time from the last three formal closings that have taken place intermittently in recent months, it translates, for example, into the “resurgence” of Sunday curfews, where all supermarkets closed for the first time, preventing Al-Delivery employees from wandering around restaurants and limiting permission to emergencies and groups excluded from this process. (Health sector workers, military personnel, journalists …) to wander. He also highlighted the “level” of commitment of the establishments and merchants, while the Internal Security Forces announced that there were some five thousand violations.
Regarding the “content”, there is fear of “excessive” these packages after a few days, given the availability of information that indicates that a series of institutions have informed their employees of the decision to reopen “secretly”, starting Wednesday, indicating that they will be able to “repeat the rosary”, which is what will drive many institutions and stakeholders to follow the same path. Here questions arise about the “behavior” of decision makers who previously marginalized the option of developing an economic plan that “withdraws” the argument of many rebels, whether they are “capable” or of the poor who do not have the luxury of staying in. their houses in the face of worsening economic conditions.

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