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EDL says blackouts will decrease as ships unload fuel at power plants

BEIRUT — With widespread, hourslong electricity blackouts crippling Lebanon, state-owned Électricité du Liban announced Monday that supply will improve after it began to unload two fuel carriers...

Georgi Azar, 1 March 2021

The World Bank gives the Health Ministry until Thursday to provide details on vaccinations

BEIRUT — The World Bank has given Lebanon’s Health Ministry until Thursday to disclose in advance the allocation of COVID-19 vaccines for each inoculation center and to provide the schedule of the...

Ghada Alsharif, 1 March 2021

Lebanon has registered 1,888 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Fifty-one more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 4,743

1 March 2021

Lebanon's national committee on COVID-19 vaccines has approved the emergency use of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, the NNA reports. It is the fourth COVID-19 inoculation to be approved in the country, after Pfizer-BioNTech, AstraZeneca and Sputnik V

1 March 2021

Wang Kejian, China’s envoy to Lebanon, tweeted that China has donated 50,000 doses of Sinopharm’s COVID-19 vaccine to Lebanon. Sinopharm said its vaccine was found to have an efficacy of 72.51 percent in stage 3 trials, but has not published full clinical results

1 March 2021

EDL adds that a third tanker, carrying “B grade” fuel oil for the two Turkish powerships at Zouk and Zahrani, is anchored off the Lebanese coast, but will not unload its cargo until a letter of credit has been opened. Protests were held over the weekend amid increased power cuts

1 March 2021

EDL says that poor weather has prevented fuel tankers from unloading at the Jiyyeh and Deir Ammar power plants, where fuel stocks are running low, but that electricity supply will improve once they are able to do so. The tankers already unloaded at Zouk and Zahrani

1 March 2021

Three people detained at the Military Tribunal in connection with January’s protests in Tripoli were released today, defense attorney Ayman Raad tells L’Orient Today. Along with 32 others, they still face charges, including of terrorism and theft, as they await court summons

1 March 2021

Scores of protesters have gathered in front of the Military Tribunal in Beirut to protest the court’s prosecution of civilian defendants on terror charges in relation to demonstrations in Tripoli in January and to call for the release of demonstrators still in detention

1 March 2021

The Lebanese army says it has distributed monetary aid to 17,107 owners of houses damaged by the Aug. 4 Beirut port explosion. The army has so far received LL150 billion to disburse as compensation, or about 10% of the compensation fund announced by the state, the army added

1 March 2021

Lebanon moves closer to buying fuel from Iraq with ‘Lebanese dollars’

Caretaker Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar briefed Iraqi reporters on Wednesday on the details of the framework agreement with Iraq for the supply of 500,000 tons of heavy fuel oil (HFO) in 2021,...

Nada Maucourant Atallah, 1 March 2021

Consumer Protection Association head Zouhair Berro has told VDL radio 100.5 that the salmonella bacterium is abundant in Lebanon due to “the failure to implement the food safety law.” A national food safety authority was established but remains inactive, he added

1 March 2021

The head of Rafik Hariri University Hospital Firass Abiad has warned against reopening schools without ensuring proper safety measures are in place to prevent transmission of the COVID-19 virus among children. Schools are set to reopen their doors next week

1 March 2021

Electricity anger, shops reopening, patriarch’s rally: Everything you need to know to start your Monday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . A number of commercial sectors will reopen Monday as Lebanon moves forward with its gradual reopening from a COVID-19 lockdown....

1 March 2021