The Lebanese ministry of public health issued on Friday its daily report in which it announced 1504 new coronavirus cases, 1498 of them for locals and 6 for the arrivals, raising total to 518104.
The report added that 16742 PCR tests were conducted during the past 48 hours, adding that the number of cases of recovery from the coronavirus rose to 441631.
According to the report, 33 new coronavirus-related death cases were registered, which raised toll to 7090.
Lebanon has continued the anti-coronavirus vaccination campaign across all the provinces as the batches of vaccines are scheduled to arrive in Beirut gradually. In this context, the report noted that 263684 citizens received the first shot of the vaccine, adding that the second shot have been given to 144511 of them.
Two million shots of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccine are expected to arrive to Lebanon between the months of May and June, Head of the Public Health House Committee, MP Assem Araji, told Radio Lebanon on Friday.
Source: Al-Manar English Website