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during the surge in patient numbers injanuary, milton keynes university hospital was one of the busiest that's still pretty close to the first peak last april. daily covid hospital admissions illustrate how much pressure there is across the uk. from below 100 in august, they started moving up in the autumn and increased rapidlyjust before the new year, to hit more than 4,000 a day injanuary. but they've fallen steeply since then to below 1,500. health service leaders say that's still a high number and the nhs will be under strain for some time. we're seeing increased pressure because of the longer—term consequences of covid, increased demand for mental health services and, of course, the additional work that's generated by the vaccination programme. i think it's fair to say that the next 12 months still bring an enormous amount of additional pressure on nhs teams and services. matthew got a round of applause as he left hospital today, on his way to a rehab facility. staff know they'll be treating many more like him, whatever happens from here. hugh pym, bbc news, milton keynes. now that

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during the surge in patient numbers injanuary, milton keynes university hospital was one of the busiest covid patients — over 200. now that number's below 100, but that's still pretty close to the first peak last april. daily covid hospital admissions illustrate how much pressure there is across the uk. from below 100 in august, they started moving up in the autumn and increased rapidlyjust before the new year, to hit more than 4,000 a day injanuary. but they've fallen steeply since then to below 1,500. health service leaders say that's still a high number and the nhs will be under strain for some time. we're seeing increased pressure because of the longer—term consequences of covid, increased demand for mental health services and, of course, the additional work that's generated by the vaccination programme. i think it's fair to say that the next 12 months still bring an enormous amount of additional pressure on nhs teams and services. matthew got a round of applause as he left hospital today, on his way to a rehab facility. staff know they'll be treating many more like him whatever hap

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like there patients here at refugee camp near a university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. hope you know i see my children every day but every day i live in fear that i may transmit this virus to them i'm trying my best to protect them. the situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks what i see you birds are full and we have about 20 patients and their measures here all waking crew are empty but. this is really is very exhausting corrado stuff. for almost a month the country has been on dry 24 hour a day care few to try to tackle the spread of covert 19 but anti lock down protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of . infections and the community is still hard we have more than one person positivity and if we prematurely open the company that will lead to reversal of the all the gains that we have. in our chief. while patients here are receiving the best care ava

and her father your highness are waiting for the next round of phage therapy at the antwerp university hospital. don't to tina boy uses bacteria phages to kill the germs in germany and many other european countries these pharmacies have not yet been approved as a medical treatment. ductile says that it would make the most sense to approve the entire bacterial flayed manufacturing process before use of but to do this you would have to relax some of the existing approval procedures in many countries there is no legal framework to make exceptions but here in belgium we have now done jesse at least of acquittal for years we were looking for a way to allow phage treatments while ensuring patient safety i believe that is why this has failed in other countries and it is that these little. prepares the phages for power lena in the hospital pharmacy where every pathogen medical professionals have to find and breed suitable bacteria phages the dozing takes place here in the clinic. this is the bacteria phages solution it comes from a military hospital in brussels we only use it for infections with very s

for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 23rd 22 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face. in the summer of 21000 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he sports a new look. the 1st. just kept all of it. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy joe de mayo is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. and there's always you know what at the end of the tunnel on and i reckon. you're watching d.w. news from berlin up next forget business for you with rob what's i'm t

. >> reporter: after three months at the university hospital in madison, a miracle recovery the townsends headed home with baby lucy. a homecoming months in the making, as for the new member >> we locked eyes. like we didn't skip a beat >> reporter: it seems she was awaiting mom, too. catie beck, nbc news. ♪ ♪ ♪♪ so this ain't the end ♪ ♪ i saw you again today ♪ ♪ i had to turn my heart away ♪ ♪ smile like the sun ♪ ♪ kisses for everyone ♪ ♪ and tales ♪ ♪ it never fails! ♪ ♪ you lying so low into the weeds ♪ ♪ i bet you gonna ambush me ♪ ♪ you'd have me down down down ♪ ♪ down on my knees ♪ ♪ now wouldn't you barracuda ♪ ♪ back over time ♪ ♪ we were all trying for free ♪ ♪ you met the porpoise and me ♪ ♪ no right no wrong ♪ ♪ you're selling a song ♪ ♪ a name ♪ ♪ whisper game ♪ ♪ and if the real thing don't do the trick no ♪ ♪ you better make up something quick ♪ ♪ you gonna burn burn burn burn ♪ ♪ burn it to the wick ♪ ♪ oh bara-barracuda ♪ ♪ barracuda ♪♪ [cheers and applause] >> kelly: welcome to "the kelly clarkson show," that's my bandy all playing "barracuda" by heart. give it up! [ch

louis university hospital that can do those large-scale vaccinations. location go to hospitals like this that can vaccinate at least 5,000 people per week. talking to health officials here, they say the biggest change is this will get more consistency and certainty, because so far they haven't known if they'll get thousands of doses this week or none at all. they haven't seen a shipment in 2 1/2 weeks. i spoke to the head of the st. louis task force about this, and he says the tough issue remains supply. take a listen. >> one of the biggest things we need to do now is communicate with the public. this is what we're facing. these are the challenges. of course everybody wants to get vaccinated, but, you know, when you're given a scarce resource, it's tough to say we should be getting it and who can wait, and that is very, very hard for people to understand. >> reporter: while this will provide more certainty, andrea, the one thing this is not going to change is that supply issue. they are still waiting on that. i also spoke to the mayor of st. louis who sa

it was emotional when i met lucy for the first time >> reporter: after three months at the university hospital in madison, a miracle recovery this week the townsends headed home with baby lucy. a homecoming months in the making as for the newest member >> we didn't skip a beat >> reporter: it seems she was a waiting mom, too catie beck, nbc news >> that's just terrific, i am lester holt, take care of yourself and each other. good night >>> right now at 6:00, they got an appointment and then the vaccine just hours later. >> vaccines available, today. today? now? so, okay. >> okay it is. the reason for this new pop-up vaccination site won't be open for much longer. >>> plus, they're calling it the no wrong door system. how santa clara county is cleaning up its vaccinations. >> and they responded when a man was accused of stabbing a tortoise at a san jose preschool. >> deescalate by just humanizing the contact, just saying hey, george, we're out here, can you talk to us? >> we'll give you an exclusive look at the new unit handling mental health calls. the news at 6:00 starts right now. thanks for

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for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 2022 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he sports a new look. the 1st. just kept on with it. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy joe de mayo is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. there's always you know what at the end of the tunnel and never give up. you're watching the news live from berlin the news continues at the top of the our struggles. and

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for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 23rd 22 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face then in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he sports a new look. the 1st time. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy 2 to mayo is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. in sports liverpool have been barred from entering germany to play their champions league quarter final because of new travel restrictions to stop the spread of coronavirus variants

for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 20th 22 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face then in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he sports a new look. the 1st. just kept on with it. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy joe de mayo is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. but there's always you know what at the end of the pond on a narrative of. spiration there you're watching live from berlin i'm told me on logic you can get more

for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 20th 22 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he sports a new look. the 1st. just kept on with it. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy joe de mayo is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. there's always you know what at the end of tunnel and never give up. you're watching live from berlin i'm told me a lot of well up next is the covert special don't for

like there patients here at refugee camp near a university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. let it get you know i see my children every day but every day i live in fear the die may transmit this virus to them i'm trying my best to protect them. the situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks of what i see your words are full and we have about 20 patients and their measures here all waking crew are empty but. this is it really is very exhausting for all of stuff. for almost a month the country has been on dry 24 hour a day care few to try to tackle the spread of covert 19 but anti lock down protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of . infections and the community is still hard we have more than what the 1st i guess positivity and if we prematurely open the company that will lead to a reversal of the all the gains that we have. in our chief doctor no. more patient

bianca browner thinks they can she's a nurse at dresden university hospital on the ward for bone marrow transplant patients. the cancer patients often spend many weeks here. and i've been working in specialized medicine for a long time and i've always felt something was missing from conventional treatment and that didn't and i came across aroma therapy you can affect the patient in a whole new way and offer them a different kind of attention to where you can achieve a lot more if you integrate the roma treatments the money just do the job mechanically and operate lies that. but can a romas really be taken seriously as a medical treatment professor hunt's hut from the rural university in boca says yes he's been researching the effects of aromas for decades. divison chaffed at the church and feel it out and a toy scientists have produced a lot of data that shows that this actually has an effect on the run for instance is strongly linked to memory and it starts in the rubric in sean even the embryos perceive the smell together with their mother so when the mother smiled whenever or she's e

like their patients here at refeed hariri university hospital in beirut they too are free and. want it to be all but i see my children every day but every day i live in fear that i may transmit this virus to them i'm trying my best to protect them that i can't have a young man in. the situation has been getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks . and we have about 20 patients and measures here all week or empty but. this is it really is very exhausting for auto stuff. for more than a month the country has been under a 24 hour a day curfew to try to tackle the spread of cope at 19. but anti lockdown protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and last week ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of. infections and the community is still hard we have more than 20 percent just positives it today and if we've pretty much really opened a company that was really to reverse some of the older games that we have. you know our chief. while pat

for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 23rd 22 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face. in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he supports a new look. the 1st time. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy joe de mayo is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. amazing story you're watching the w. news live from berlin after a short break i'll be back to take you through the day tonight u.s. troops stationed in germany will be staying in g

university hospital in newark now seeing a nearly 50% increase in admissions. >> all these variants doencourage us to vaccinate people faster. the more people are vaccinated, the more we will be closer to herd immunity. >> reporter: but today south africa announced they're stopping out the rollout of the astrazeneca vaccine, saying it does not provide adequate protection against mild and moderate cases of the dominant variant there. the c.d.c. announcing florida has more u.k. variant case than any other state, as maskless people partied in tampa. and today we learned the first sitting member of congress died after being hospitalized with covid. texas republican ron wright was 67. meanwhile new york governor cuomo says he hopes to reopen broadway with some limitations but gave no timeline. >> open schools! open schools! >> reporter: tonight the question remains how to safely reopen schools. san francisco and chicago have reached tentative agreements, but philadelphia teachers said not so fast. >> the school district is hell bent on forcing thousands of educators into unsafe buildings he

like their patients here at rafik hariri university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. the situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks of what i see your beds are full and we have about 20 patients and emergency room waiting for empty but. this is really is very exhausting for all of stuff. for almost a month the country has been on drought 24 hour a day caf you to try to tackle the spread of cove $819.00 but anti lockdown protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of. infections and the community is still hard we have more than one person just positivity and if we prematurely open the company that will lead to reversal of the older games that we have. in our chief doctor no. more patients here are receiving the best care available a shortage of medicines is making the job for health professionals even tougher. the economic crisis is also forcing some to leave

visit by going to the lighthouse laboratory, which processes covid tests at the queen elizabeth university hospitalng for another independence referendum, and the snp said the prime minister was panicking because he was losing the argument. meanwhile in holyrood, the conservative leader questioned the speed of the country's vaccine roll—out. ruth davidson quoted one family doctor. these jabs are sat there, but they're not getting to us. this argument that the focus is on care homes rather than the over—80s is a red herring. it isn't a choice between the two. these are different cohorts being vaccinated by different staff. first minister, are you telling these gps on the front line that they're wrong? we have now virtually completed the vaccination of care homes, around 95%, there will be efforts to get that percentage up. we are on track, though, to notjust meet, but i hope to exceed our targets for the other cohorts that we are now vaccinating. around half a million people have been vaccinated already in total, and in terms of the over—80 population, as i said, today that is now around 60%. 11 mon

like their patients here at refuge hariri university hospital in beirut they too are free and. wanted to give you all but i see my children every day but every day i live in fear that i may transmit this virus to them and i'm trying my best to protect them that i can't handle. the situation has been getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks. and we have about 20 patients and their measures here where 3 crore i'm compared to. this is that really is very exhausting kudos to her. for more than a month the country has been under a 24 hour a day curfew to try to tackle the spread of covert 19. but anti lockdown protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and last week ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of. infections and the community is still hard we have more than 20 percent positivity and if we prematurely open the company that was read to reverse the gains that we have. in our chief. while patients here are receiving the best car

like their patients here at rafik hariri university hospital in beirut they too are frightened. the situation is getting worse every day for the last 3 weeks i would r.c.u. birds are full and we have about 20 patients and emergency room working for them and people to. this is really is very exhausting for all of our stuff. for almost a month the country has been under our 24 hour a day caffeine to try to tackle the spread of cove $819.00 but until lock down protests in cities like tripoli put pressure on the government to begin easing restrictions and on monday ministers began relaxing some of its lockdown measures that may help the struggling economy but it's worrying health workers the number of . infections and the community is still hard we have more than 20 percent positivity rate and if we prematurely open the company. to reverse some of the older games that we have. you know our chief got a lot. more patients here are receiving the best care available a shortage of medicines is making the job for health professionals even tougher. the economic crisis is also forcing some

during the surge in patient numbers injanuary, milton keynes university hospital was one of the busiestspital admissions illustrate how much pressure there is across the uk. from below 100 in august, they started moving up in the autumn and increased rapidlyjust before the new year, to hit more than a,000 a day injanuary. but they've fallen steeply since then to below 1,500. health service leaders say that's still a high number and the nhs will be under strain for some time. we're seeing increased pressure because of the longer—term consequences of covid, increased demand for mental health services and, of course, the additional work that's generated by the vaccination programme. i think it's fair to say that the next 12 months still bring an enormous amount of additional pressure on nhs teams and services. matthew got a round of applause as he left hospital today, on his way to a rehab facility. staff know they'll be treating many more like him whatever happens from here. hugh pym, bbc news, milton keynes. we can speak now to dr alison pittard, who's dean of the faculty of intensive ca

margaret keenan receiving the pfizer vaccine from may parsons, a matron at university hospital coventryons. thank you. and today she met the head of nhs england, sir simon stevens, on a visit to the hospital. how are you? i'm very well. it's just extraordinary that it's only been ten weeks. looking back, how does may see it now? the beacon of hope, for me, that's how i looked at it, i think that little light is growing bigger and bigger as we go along to the vaccination programme. it feels as though finally we can see the reality of the new future. few would have believed on that historic day back in december that at vaccination clinics like this one at the hospital they'd be getting up to 1,000 jabs a day done, with the uk daily total reaching 500,000. the target is to offer the main priority groups a jab by the middle of this month, those aged 70 and over, health and care staff, and those who are clinically vulnerable. our goal has always been to ensure that by 15th february, that's monday, everybody has had that offer and we have had as high an uptake as we can possibly encourage peo

what the head of the intensive care unit at the sound of the university hospital in brussels says that the policy of not giving people a choice could actually adversely affect the vaccination program in belgium. they need their books in issues important but it's also a something you have to choose just self and this is a personal decision to move to the vaccination so therefore i think that it's quite important to get informed of the facts he now to be concerned over the last couple of weeks was that the information spread all over the media and even in the scientific world questioned whether some backseats were more effective than others some vaccines were in use ignore reaction than others and therefore i think that information spreads all over the community and therefore people are questioning whether they can select the type of vaccine they want to choose for their future so it's understandable that people want to know exactly what they get spore we noticing it is a rush towards getting those one vaccine specially deployed to iraq so you can and many people question whether that wo

only two weeks ago, the brighton university hospital nhs trust declared that breast—feeding was to beding". and mother was to be replaced with "a birthing parent." that might go down well in brighton, my lords, but it will apall many women in mainstream britain. she said she was not prepared to be erased as a woman and objected to the bill saying "a person" had given birth. my lords, when the bill was considered in the other place, the minister inserted a column and it is not the case that we could legally and correctly use the word woman. i respectfully say to my noble friend minister that this is garbage. there is nothing illegal or incorrect about using the word woman in relation to pregnancy. but at the end of that debate, lady noakes, decided not to force a vote on her amendment for now at least. and that's it from me for now, but do join me at the same time tomorrow for another round up of the day in parliament. but for now, from me, alicia mccarthy, goodbye. hello, northern and western parts of the uk saw some of the best of the sunshine on monday. have a look at this picture f

with the crisis what's happening across the country we've seeing the same thing here at howard university hospital low and less hospitalizations >> and you attribute that to what, exactly? >> so, the science behind it is that people are getting vaccines or people are making sure they're social distancing and masking. washington, d.c. has always done a very good job making sure we have those constraints around us to be safe i don't know the exact magic bullet, but i'm glad to see it >> let's go to the topic at hand which is the sort of fear that people in the black community and in latin communities have of getting the vaccine. this vaccine really, any vaccine. and i have to say, i'm ashamed that i did not know the deep historical reasons for this. at all and it broke my heart when i heard them because it, once again shows that so much of what has happened in our country has been unequal. and unjust talk to us why people in the black community are as hesitant as they are. >> that's right, tyler there's a lot of history around how health care disparity has just been so different from the very beginn

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for 23 hours 6 teams of surgeons at new york university hospital operated on him and the result was the successful transplant of a donor's face and both hands. the doctors waited until now to go public because they wanted to make sure the complicated surgery would remain successful over time similar transplants had been previously attempted but failed. in july 23rd 2002 year old had an accident in which he suffered severe burns and lost his lips eyelids and fingertips he had 20 reconstructive operations which resulted in the limited use of his hands and face. in the summer of 2019 this complicated transplant became a possibility and it was successful now he sports a new look. the 1st. i guess i just kept on with it. but he has not completely recovered from the operations every day he has 5 hours of physical therapy killed a male is far from having reached the end of the road but he has a message for others beginning a difficult journey. you know on a narrative of. amazing story choose geometric formations have begun appearing on frozen lakes and snow covered fields in canada so the work

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. >> the president has gone to george washington university hospital. s first lady nancy reagan. >> we got a lear jet. flew back to d.c. and to the hospital. nobody's really telling anybody anything. she was of course terrified she was about to lose her husband. and then they wheeled him out, he look pretty good for a guy that had just been shot nearly in the heart. >> in our top story, president reagan's temperature is back to normal today. he continues to make satisfactory recovery. >> the president recovers. but the scars will stay with nancy for years to come. >> the impact of the shooting never left nancy reagan. having seen how close he came to dying, she determined she wouldn't let that happen again. >> it then became a problem whenever he went out. >> somebody could come out of nowhere. bullets could fly out of nowhere. washington seemed a darker place. >> and this of course leads to the famous astrology business, which i'm sure you would have gotten to eventually. this astrologer lets her know, i could have predicted this. i knew that was not a

university school of medicine. and head of the infectious disease service at tufts children's hospital in boston. >> good morning. i am the professor of pediatrics and pediatric infectious disease at stanford university. in a currently do research on the response of different pathogens in special and special host including vaccines. thank you. >> i am a pathologist by training currently director of physician and clinical innovation at the national center for the science is within the national institutes of health. >> good morning. professor pediatrics at the children's hospital and university school of metals medicine in pennsylvaniape. >> good morning. i am vice president and therapeutic area head of the vaccine clinical development at merck and a nonvoting industry representative this morning. >> i'm associate professor at the cancer research center and university of washington. >> good morning i'm in microbiology from university of michigan and also leader of african studies. >>. >> i am director of the division of vaccines in the office of infectious disease and hiv-aids policy and hhs office assistant secreta

mahmud hasun, the head of the intensive care unit at the hariri university hospital. >> for us as thepulation, it is the only solution to finish this pandemic. >> reporter: trust in the authorities, in much of anything, is in short supply here. a recent survey found that less than one-third of those polled are willing to take the vaccine. for more than a year, the country has been convulsed by sporadic, mass protests and violence. lebanon was already careening toward financial and economic collapse before covid-19 reared its head. and last august, massive beirut port blast added more injury to injury. in a country where the rich and powerful tend to get all the breaks, the vice president of the world bank, the institution which is financing this vaccine campaign, has warned that nobody should be use ing connections t jump the queue. caretaker prime minister was scheduled to receive the first vaccination but stepped out of the queue deferring to frontline medical workers. the country has been under a total lockdown for a month. those workers pushed to the brink. >> the fight is going t

now, we are right now at a university hospital which is the main hospital treating covid patients, whereill be administered shortly to the caretaker prime minister of lebanon, hassan diab. after that, 90 of the staff of the hospital will be vaccinated. this will be the first vaccinations in lebanon, keeping in mind, of course, that the -- we're well more than two months late after the first vaccine was administered in the uk on the 8th of december and, michael, right here is hamad hassan, the caretaker health minister who is going in right now to watch this process take place. michael. >> that's good timing there. generally speaking, i mean you live there and work there, how do the lebanese people feel their government has handled the virus overall? >> reporter: well, you know, you can barely call what we have here a government given that this is a caretaker government. the government itself resigned back in august after that horrific port blast here in beirut. nonetheless, initially, you know, the first case here was recorded on the 21st of february, and for several months it did seem t