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In an interview with Télé Liban, caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan defended the administering of COVID-19 vaccines yesterday to MPs, saying the move was not a violation of the national inoculation program
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Lebanon has registered 3,513 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Sixty-two more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 4,508
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Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni has instructed the Independent Municipal Fund to pay the full balance of revenues owed to municipalities from 2018, worth LL300 billion, a spokesperson from the Finance Ministry told L’Orient Today
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Thalia Arawi has announced her resignation from Lebanon’s national COVID-19 vaccination committee following breaches in distribution protocols that benefited top politicians. The head of the committee announced he would resign yesterday, but later backtracked
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Abdul Rahman Bizri, the head of Lebanon’s COVID-19 vaccination committee, told Al Jadeed that Parliament had pressured the Health Ministry to supply it with inoculations, adding that his committee had advised the ministry not to comply
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Deputy Speaker of Parliament Elie Ferzli has told a press conference today that 11 MPs aged above 70 years old received the COVID-19 vaccine yesterday at Parliament within “the established mechanism” of the Health Ministry
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Activists are gathering outside the Military Tribunal in Beirut to protest its decision to bring terrorism charges against those arrested during protests in Tripoli last month. The secretive court has brought such charges against 35 protesters, one of their defense attorneys says
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COVID-19 vaccination committee head Abdul Rahman Bizri has said the committee will meet today to discuss yesterday's vaccination breaches and caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan will attend. Bizri added that the inoculation plan does not prioritize people in politics
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Monitors from the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies were at Parliament yesterday when MPs and staff got the COVID-19 vaccine, an IFRC spokesperson tells L'Orient Today, saying the IFRC was there to observe and report violations, not to intervene
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Wehbe Katicha, one of the MPs who received the COVID-19 vaccine, says in a statement that he had registered on the national vaccine platform on Feb. 6 and received a call yesterday to go to Parliament, where he thought the Health Ministry set up an inoculation center, for a shot
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