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Covid-19 In Lebanon: Demographics And Distribution, Mahdi Fadlallah, Fadi Hobeiche, Marie Therese Jamal, Elie Salem-Sokhn
Covid-19 In Lebanon: Demographics And Distribution, Mahdi Fadlallah, Fadi Hobeiche, Marie Therese Jamal, Elie Salem-Sokhn
BAU Journal - Health and Wellbeing
COVID-19 pandemic has emerged over more than 200 countries leading to more than 117 million infection cases and more than 2.6 million deaths. Lebanon is one of the countries affected by this disease especially in the second half of 2020 reaching its peak early this year. In this study, we studied the impact of multiple factors on this surge and analyzed the positive tests among different age groups over a period of one year (from March 2020 to February 2021). Data was collected from one medical center in Beirut where more than 20,000 PCR tests were done using RT-PCR method …