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BEIRUT: Lebanon registered 168 new COVID-19 cases and four deaths in the last 24 hours, the Health Ministry reported Friday.
A total number of 543,267 cases have now been reported along with a total of 7,815 deaths, since the virus was first detected in the country in February 2020. Out of Friday's cases, six were detected among travelers arriving in Lebanon.
The cases were discovered among 17,013 tests, resulting in a two-week positivity rate of 1.4 percent. The report also detailed that 112 individuals were in hospital with the virus, with 67 patients in intensive care wards and 17 on ventilators.
The Health Ministry report also showed that 22,097 first-stage jabs had been administered, raising the total to 740,260 individuals, or 15.5 percent of eligible people, who have now had their first shot since the rollout began five months ago. A further 1,872 second-stage vaccines jabs were also administered, taking the total of fully inoculated people to 7.9 percent.
Also Friday, the government e-platform Impact, responsible for monitoring COVID-19 and the vaccine rollout, announced on Twitter that no vaccine 'marathon' would happen this weekend, despite the caretaker health minister's previous assertions that events would take place each weekend to drive up numbers.
However, Impact also said that anyone aged over 30 who has signed up for the vaccine can go to designated AstraZeneca vaccine centers and receive the jab via a walk-in appointment at any time.
In addition, individuals aged 53 and over registered on the platform can go to any center offering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine for a walk-in appointment.
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