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Najib
Feb 28, 2021 05:54
Lebanon's Health Ministry stated earlier this week that it has authorized 20 private companies to import COVID-19 vaccines, but a Ministry official said the local companies “have so far faced rejection from the companies that manufacture the vaccines.” This is the list as found online: I don't know why Pfizer and Moderna are not on the list. Someone stated the companies faced rejection from MODERNA but another source mentioned negotiations were postponed. Manufacturing companies are…
Posted By
Najib
Feb 27, 2021 05:28
Joelle M. Abi-Rached published on twitter the full report by the Central Inspection following the first week of COVID-19 vaccination in Lebanon. Looking quickly at the numbers in the report below: - 28,080 doses of Pfizer/BioNTech were received but the reported numbers are 15,241 . Yesterday, the number of doses administered was 34,664 out of around 60k. Where are the remaining doses? - AUB has vaccinated almost 47% people outside the national platform. Tebnin 91.6%!…
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Najib
Feb 27, 2021 04:25
Valentina Finckenstein, the author of this LSE Ideas study entitled "How International Aid Can Do More Harm Than Good: The Case of Lebanon", questions the effectiveness of international aid to Lebanon throughout the last three decades and how it played a role in keeping this entrenched Lebanese political structure alive, among other things. To give you an idea on how much money we're talking here, it is estimated that in the post-war period between 1993–2012,…
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Najib
Feb 27, 2021 03:55
The minimum wage in Lebanon is LL675,000 which was the equivalent of $450 prior to October 2019, is now worth 70$ ONLY! And given the rate at which the LIRA is deteriorating recently, it will only get worse. While dropping the 1515 peg may seem like a sound idea, this is not how it was supposed to happen, as the dollar shortage is driving the prices up and given that we need dollars to buy…
Humor
4 years ago
The Lebanese Ministry of Information tweeted yesterday that minister Abdel Samad has received an invitation to host the longest Zoom meeting in the world that is expected to last more than 28 hours. The event ...
Fun
4 years ago
I put “Inhuman Resources” on my to-watch list a while back because it featured Eric Cantona, but I hadn’t noticed the director is Ziad Doueiri until I began streaming it. Doueiri is a Lebanese-French director ...
Baladi
4 years ago
A new and exciting initiative was launched this week aimed at linking global companies to Lebanese professionals in the digital, technology, creative, finance and other fields. The [Lebanon Outsourcing Initiative], launched by Bridge. Outsource. Transform ...
Critiques
4 years ago
The head of Lebanon’s COVID19 vaccination committee, Dr. Abdel-Rahman Bizri is set to resign today after a number of 75+ members of parliaments got vaccinated without his knowledge. World Bank Regional Director has already reacted ...
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