Hospitals were already under pressure in Lebanon’s capital.
Crisis mode
Those who still wore masks did so in part to keep out the dust and stench. A toxic cloud of nitrous oxide loomed, health officials warned.Marco Baldan, a surgeon in Beirut with the International Committee of the Red Cross, told The Washington Post by phone that within two hours of the explosion hospitals in Beirut ran out of medical supplies that were meant to last for days.
By Wednesday, Beirut’s mayor estimated that a quarter-million people had been displaced. Some estimates ran higher. Lebanon’s parliament pledged to house people in empty schools. Many Beirut residents have already fled the shattered capital to stay with family and friends elsewhere in the country. On social media, people are exchanging the latest on who has an open room or space for the displaced.These dispersal and solidarity come with added coronavirus risk.
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