With Coronavirus numbers blossoming once again, public health officials again encourage residents to get their COVID jabs. (Photo: Joao Sousa)
BEIRUT — “We are facing a new wave of COVID-19 that is expected to be more infectious and to spread faster,” the executive committee for COVID-19 vaccination said in a statement Saturday.
Here’s what we know:
• The vaccination committee announced findings that the number of confirmed cases of COVID infection, in Lebanon and internationally, has “increased worryingly in a short time.” The Ministry of Public Health’s COVID report for Friday showed a PCR positivity rate of 10.4 percent over the past seven days.
• The committee stressed the importance of vaccination and urged citizens to receive their doses, noting the country’s low vaccination rate of not more than 45 percent.
• The Ministry of Public Health has made free vaccinations available for the next week and published a list of centers where residents can get their jabs on a walk-in basis. The first dose is available to everyone over the age of five, while the second is available three weeks after the first; the third inoculation can be got five months after the second, and the fourth six months after the fifth.
• A list of MOPH vaccination centers is available in English on the National News Agency website.