Britain should give an alternative to Oxford/AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine to under the 30s where possible due to a “vanishingly” rare side effect of blood clots in the brain, Britain’s vaccine advisory committee said on Wednesday. Safety concerns have prompted more than a dozen countries in recent weeks to suspend the use of the vaccine, which...
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Ministry of Health: 2296 new infections, 36 deaths
The Ministry of Public Health announced 2296 new coronavirus infection cases, which raises the cumulative number of confirmed cases to 482798. 36 deaths have been recorded over the past 24 hours.
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(Update) Batches of China’s Sinopharm vaccine reach Lebanon
A Qatar Airways plane carrying 50 thousand shots of China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine has arrived at Beirut’s Rafic Hariri International airport, as a donation from the Chinese authorities to the Lebanese government and for the benefit of the Lebanese army. Welcoming the plane at the airport had been Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Dr. Hamad Hassan,...
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EMA official links AstraZeneca vaccine and thrombosis
A top official in the European Medicines Agency said in an interview published Tuesday that there is a link between the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine and blood clots. “In my opinion, we can say it now, it is clear there is a link with the vaccine. But we still do not know what causes this reaction,”...
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Batches of China’s Sinopharm vaccine reach Lebanon
A Qatar Airways plane carrying 50 thousand shots of China’s Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine has landed in Beirut airport, our correspondent reported on Tuesday.
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Lebanon to receive 50,000 vaccine doses from China
Caretaker Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, announced today, Monday, that the Ministry of Public Health will receive, on Tuesday, a donation of an additional of 50,000 vaccines from the Sinopharm Company, through the Chinese embassy. Hassan indicated that 30,000 doses will be dedicated to the army guidance and the rest for journalists and photographers. The...
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The arrival of the eighth shipment of Pfizer vaccine
The Ministry of Public Health announced this afternoon the arrival of the eighth shipment of Pfizer vaccine to Lebanon, containing 46,800 vaccines. Lebanon has so far received 297,180 vaccines from Pfizer, the Ministry said. MoPH also reminded that the detailed number of those who have received the vaccine is published daily in its updated report...
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Ministry of Health: Proof of vaccination adopted is the electronic certificate
The Ministry of Public Health indicated today that the “certificate of vaccination” for those who received two vaccine doses through the Ministry is the electronic certificate that contains the bar code issued on the data page of the concerned individual receiving the vaccine through the electronic platform, without the need for having it signed or...
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The first batch of Sputnik-V vaccine arrives at Bsharri hospital
The first batch of Sputnik-V vaccine, which has been provided by the Cedar’s Mountain Foundation to vaccinate the residents of the Bsharri region, has arrived at Bsharri Governmental Hospital, where it was received by the hospital’s Director, Eddy Lazem. It is noteworthy that the vaccination campaign covered by the Foundation will start as of tomorrow,...
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Ministries of Information, Health launch awareness video on vaccination process
The Ministries of Information and Public Health, in cooperation with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the Disaster Risk Management Unit, on Tuesday launched an awareness video which details the vaccination process against the Coronavirus. This step falls within the framework of the media campaign that the Ministry of Information had previously launched, in cooperation...