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A worsening pandemic complicates Beirut's recovery

Season 2021 Episode 36 | 6m 52s

It's been six months since a massive fertilizer explosion at the Port of Beirut tore through the city, leaving hundreds dead and catastrophic destruction. Lebanon was already mired in a deep economic crisis before the blast, and is now experiencing another calamity with COVID-19. Special correspondent Leila Molana-Allen reports.

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