BEIRUT – The World Bank threatened Tuesday to suspend financing for coronavirus vaccines in Lebanon over what it said were violations by members of parliament who were inoculated without registering in advance.
Such a move by the World Bank would have grave consequences as Lebanon struggles through severe financial and economic crises and is in desperate need of aid.
The World Bank said last month it approved $34 million to help pay for vaccines for Lebanon that will inoculate over 2 million people.
The vaccination campaign in the country began on Feb. 14 and Lebanon has so far received nearly 60,000 shots of Pfizer-BioNTech . “Everyone has to register and wait for their turn! #nowasta,” the World Bank’s regional director Saroj Kumar Jha