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Hadeel Farfour wrote in “News“: With the continuous record of dozens of deaths and thousands of injuries daily, the bet has completely fallen on the results of any general shutdown, while the only hope today is to get vaccines to control the epidemic. Hundreds of thousands of vaccines will arrive in Lebanon in April and May, and will be preceded by some 50,000 doses. Of the Russian vaccine “Sputnik” on January 24, within a million doses imported by the private sector, which could accelerate the vaccination mechanism to achieve the required immunity.
If things go according to plan, some 50,000 doses of the Russian “Sputnik” vaccine will arrive in Lebanon next Thursday, according to a contract signed by the Malia Group’s “Pharma Trade” company (whose board of directors is chaired by the Russian businessman Jack Sarraf), to reserve a million doses and sell them to companies that wish to vaccinate their workers.
The head of the National Corona Vaccine Committee, Dr. Abdel-Rahman Al-Bizri, explained to Al-Akhbar that several institutions, such as the Association of Banks, “Middle East”, the Association of Industrialists and others, have reserved their part of the vaccine, and that vaccination will be under the supervision of the Ministry of Health. And to the centers identified by the ministry, Al-Bizri pointed out that other centers would be rehabilitated, under the supervision of the Ministry, that the institutions could suggest to vaccinate their workers, such as “Middle East”, for example, which has its own clinics. . . He highlighted the importance of registering private sector workers on the platform dedicated to vaccines “in order to standardize the data and arrive at accurate estimates of the percentage of community immunity.».
Although the epidemic continues to spread widely and claim victims, the next months of April and May are expected to witness an “influx” of vaccines. Up to one million doses insured by “Pharma Trade”, it is expected to secure an additional million doses of “Sputnik” for the benefit of the Ministry of Health. Al-Akhbar learned that the Russian authorities informed the Hezbollah parliamentary delegation that visited Moscow this week of their willingness to quickly obtain this amount..
It is also expected that, from the beginning of next month, 2,250,000 doses of the “Pfizer” vaccine, reserved for Lebanon, will arrive in large batches. At the same time, batches of one million doses of the British “AstraZeneca” vaccine and 200 thousand doses of the Chinese “Sinopharma” vaccine, respectively, will be started in the coming weeks. However, how will this “influx” affect epidemiological reality?
Source: News
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