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Fearful families and friends desperately seek oxygen machines, but they’ve become almost impossible to find

BEIRUT — For the past two days, Jessy Shoucair has been making nonstop calls. She’s on a desperate hunt for a machine that will supply a friend’s father, who is suffering from COVID-19, with...

Emily Lewis, 12 January 2021

The World Bank has approved a $246 million loan agreement with the Finance Ministry for the Lebanon Emergency Crisis and COVID-19 Response Social Safety Net Project, which aims to aid vulnerable populations and provide emergency relief. Parliament must also approve the agreement

12 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 4,557 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Thirty-two more people have died from the virus, bringing the death toll to 1,705

12 January 2021

An Israeli patrol abducted a young shepherd in Kfar Shuba at around 4 p.m. this afternoon, the NNA reports. Local media outlets have named the man as Hassan Qassem Zahra

12 January 2021

Parliament’s health committee expects to finalize Wednesday a draft law authorizing the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine before referring it to Parliament for a vote, the committee’s head, MP Assem Araji (Future/Zahle), tells L’Orient Today

12 January 2021

The Association of Lebanese Industrialists has called on officials to amend lockdown rules and allow printing and packaging factories to operate. These factories produce items necessary for medical and food supplies, it said, and are therefore “vital in the production cycle.”

12 January 2021

Save the Children’s Lebanon director has said that almost half the country’s population can’t afford to buy enough food to last them through the 24-hour curfew in effect from Thursday until Jan. 25, adding she fears “they will face hunger” if stores lack capacity to deliver food

12 January 2021

Beirut Governor Marwan Abboud has issued a communique warning merchants in Beirut that businesses not abiding by COVID-19 restrictions will be closed

12 January 2021

Public transport drivers have ended their protest on the highway leading south from Tripoli over COVID-19 measures impacting their livelihood. During the demonstration, one of the protesters was stopped from setting himself on fire, the NNA reports

12 January 2021

Interpol has issued Red Notices at the request of a Lebanese judge for a former owner and captain of the MV Rhosus, the now-sunk vessel that in 2014 shipped the ammonium nitrate to Beirut that exploded on Aug. 4, and a Portuguese national involved in the shipment, the NNA reports

12 January 2021

Public transport drivers have blocked the highway south of Tripoli in both directions to protest tightened COVID-19 measures set to start Thursday, including a ban on most vehicular traffic

12 January 2021

The ISF says that it foiled an attempt to smuggle over 812,000 captagon pills and 861 kilograms of hashish to an unnamed country in Africa, adding that the narcotics were concealed in barrels of automobile lubricant at the Beirut port

12 January 2021

A group of activists has gathered in front of the Health Ministry in Beirut to protest against the delayed installation of field hospitals donated by Qatar on Nov. 11, the NNA reports

12 January 2021

The head of the Syndicate of Supermarket Owners, Nabil Fahed, told VDL radio 93.3 that grocery delivery services can only cover 5-10% of demand during the 24-hour COVID-19 curfew, which goes into effect on Thursday and lasts until Jan. 25

12 January 2021

Total lockdown, COVID-19 records, run on supermarkets: Everything you need to know to start your Tuesday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . The Higher Defense Council announced a state of public health emergency starting Thursday and running until Jan. 25, ramping up...

12 January 2021