LAST YEAR

January February  Lockdown and labor protests Following the government decision to extend a total COVID-19 lockdown and curfew to the first week of February, exasperated citizens left without the possibility of securing income from daily labor or sales activities took to the streets and blocked roads in protest across the country. At the start of the year a lockdown was implemented for the January 14-25 period, in response to a skyrocketing rise in COVID-19 cases during the holiday season. The extension of the lockdown was decided in a desperate attempt to flatten the curve of infection but was perceived as economically detrimental by laborers and business owners already struggling to remain afloat and deprived of any compensation or social safety net. The resigned Lebanese government did resolutely nothing.  COVID-19 vaccination starts  After a long wait, the first doses of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Lebanon and the Ministry of Public