Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the provision of quality immunization service is continuously being delivered by the primary healthcare centres in Lebanon, reaching to vulnerable and marginalized children with life-saving vaccines.

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Citation

Citation: Randa S Hamadeh. “Immunization Amidst COVID-19: The Relentless Mission of the Primary Healthcare Network in Lebanon”. Acta Scientific Paediatrics 3.8 (2020): 85-87.

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Copyright: © 2020 Randa S Hamadeh. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.