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One of Lebanon’s top hospitals warned on Saturday that it will be forced to shut off ventilators and other lifesaving equipment in less than 48 hours amid fuel shortages.
The move comes amid a surge in infections with around 1,104 positive cases registered on Thursday compared to a few hundred a day in previous months.
Hospitals in crisis-hit Lebanon warned of a looming 'catastrophe' as some were only hours away from running out of fuel to keep life-saving equipment on during endless state power cuts
Women in Lebanon are struggling to pay for sanitary products due to the crippling economic pressures according to Fe-Male and Plan International.
UN OCHA operations director Reena Ghelani told the UN Security Council cholera is 'rapidly spreading' throughout Syria, where it is now present in all 14 provinces.
The World Health Organization said the 'strained global supply of cholera vaccines' had pushed the International Coordinating Group, which manages emergency supplies of vaccines, to suspend the two-dose regimen.
Lebanon's Health Minister has said that the country's healthcare system is on the brink of collapse as the economic crisis worsens. Doctors and nurses leaving and departments closing has devasted the already exhausted sector.
Oman reported its first two cases of the Omicron Covid-19 variant Monday, joining several other Middle Eastern countries that have detected incidents of the highly transmissible mutation.
The WHO warned on Monday that the new Covid-19 Omicron variant posed a 'very high' risk globally, despite uncertainties about the danger and contagion levels of the new strain.
Nobel Prize for medicine honours Ardem Patapoutian for the discovery of receptors for temperature and touch.