A study conducted by the Crisis Observatory at the American University of Beirut warned that Lebanon will not reach herd immunity before the summer of 2025 at this slow pace. In fact, Lebanon has only vaccinated 25,000 people so far, out of which only 12,000 had registered on the platform. The study concluded that “Lebanon will not reach herd immunity before the summer of 2025” if the vaccination process continues at its current slow pace,…

As Lebanon has officially kicked off its vaccination campaign against COVID-19, the number of people who registered on the is still relatively small. In fact, ex-PM Diab mentioned that only 450,000 have signed up to be vaccinated so far, with only 45,000 aged above 75 and 17,500 from the health sector. With a population nearing the 7 million, we barely have 6-7% registered so far which is a very low turnout. However, the low number…