Lebanon has secured about 2mn doses of Pfizer-BioNTech’s Covid-19 vaccine, which will cover 20% of the country’s nationals, the health minister said yesterday. Hamad Hassan told Reuters two weeks ago the country was about to sign a deal for supplies and that the first batch would arrive eight weeks later. “We have reserved about 2mn doses of the vaccine and that will be enough for 20% of Lebanese living in the country,” he said at the presidential palace yesterday. Lebanon’s hospitals are under pressure as infections surge. Doctors warn ICU beds are filling up fast. The medical system has also been battered by the country’s financial crisis, which caused supply shortages, and August’s port explosion, which damaged major Beirut hospitals. The Covid-19 outbreak has killed nearly 1,400 people in Lebanon.