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Lebanon goes quiet on the first day of a strict lockdown to combat COVID-19

BEIRUT — Lebanon began an 11-day, 24-hour nationwide lockdown Thursday, implementing the most stringent restrictions yet to curb an alarming surge in COVID-19 cases that has overwhelmed the...

Ghada Alsharif, 14 January 2021

St. Georges Hospital in Hadath, outside Beirut, says that all of its beds are occupied, prompting it to convert the cafeteria into a space for receiving COVID-19 patients. Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan is receiving care at the hospital after contracting COVID-19

14 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 5,196 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. A record 41 more people have died from the virus, bringing the death toll to 1,781

14 January 2021

Disgraced Lebanese-French businessman Ziad Takieddine was questioned in Beirut by two French investigative judges and a financial prosecutor in the case of alleged illicit Libya financing for Nicholas Sarkozy’s 2007 presidential campaign in France, a judicial source told AFP

14 January 2021

Sheikh Ragheb Harb University Hospital outside Nabatieh announces that its COVID-19 ward is at 100 percent capacity, adding that the situation is very serious, the NNA reports

14 January 2021

North Lebanon First Investigative Judge Samaranda Nassar has issued a committal order referring three Lebanese nationals for trial on misdemeanor charges related a 2016 weapons shipment bound for Lebanon that was interdicted by Greek authorities, the NNA reports

14 January 2021

‘Behind this door, seven out of 10 patients die’: Distress and heartbreak at a COVID-19 ward

It’s 12:30 p.m. at the Rafik Hariri University Hospital. A Lebanese Red Cross ambulance has just parked in front of the emergency room. A first-aid worker, clad in protective gear, approaches the...

Lyana ALAMEDDINE, 14 January 2021

Lebanon has filed a complaint with the United Nations Security Council over Israel’s continued violation of Lebanese airspace and demanded the release of a shepherd who was abducted by an Israeli patrol on Tuesday, the NNA reports

14 January 2021

Some 40 people are set to go on trial Feb. 1 at the Military Tribunal for celebratory gunfire on New Year’s Eve that killed a Syrian refugee and struck an airplane at Beirut’s airport, the NNA reports. If convicted, defendants face between six months and three years in prison

14 January 2021

Strict lockdown begins, vaccine progress, a bad year for human rights: Everything you need to know to start your Thursday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon goes into a total lockdown today in a bid to contain an outbreak that has killed 180 people in a week. The outbreak,...

14 January 2021

MP Joseph Ishaq (LF/Bsharri) is in critical but stable condition at Lebanese Hospital Geitaoui after contracting COVID-19 and being admitted to the ICU, fellow Bsharri MP Sethrida Geagea said in a statement

14 January 2021

Lebanon takes a step closer to obtaining a COVID-19 vaccine, but daunting challenges remain

BEIRUT — The mid-February deadline for the first batch of COVID-19 vaccine arriving in Lebanon looked closer to reality Wednesday after a parliamentary committee approved a draft law for its...

Emily Lewis, 14 January 2021