Beirut hospitals are no longer able to take new coronavirus patients, the secretary-general of the Lebanese Red Cross George Kettaneh told LBCI, adding that they are looking into the possibility of transferring patients to hospitals outside the capital and Mount Lebanon 1 January 2021
Lebanon has registered 2,385 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Eleven more people have died from the virus, raising the death toll to 1,466 1 January 2021
The cost of PCR tests at governmental hospitals will be reduced to LL100,000 from Monday, caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan has announced. He added that Baalbeck Governmental Hospital will be approved as a vaccination center in mid-February, once the Pfizer vaccine arrives 1 January 2021
A Syrian woman died after being hit by a stray bullet in a Baalbeck refugee camp during New Year’s Eve celebrations, the NNA reports. A stray bullet also lightly damaged a Middle East Airlines plane parked on the tarmac at Beirut airport. Celebratory gunfire is common in Lebanon 1 January 2021
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