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Hospitals are scrambling as COVID-19 patients overflow into ERs on the third day of strict lockdown

BEIRUT — Hospitals in and around Beirut are at risk of cracking under the strain of an unprecedented surge in coronavirus infections that has pushed them to maximum ICU capacity, with COVID-19...

Georgi Azar, 16 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 5,872 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Forty-one more people have died from the virus, bringing the death toll to 1,866

16 January 2021

President Michel Aoun has signed laws waiving liability for makers of COVID-19 vaccines, pushing back a deadline for public servants to disclose assets as required under the illicit enrichment law, and allowing funding of the state until the 2021 budget is passed, the NNA reports

16 January 2021

The ISF withdrew after attempting to halt work to add temporary capacity at Rizk Hospital earlier today, ER chief Mariana Helou tells L’Orient Today. A neighbor had filed a complaint about the unlicensed work

16 January 2021

Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri has signed the law waiving liability for companies producing COVID-19 vaccines, the NNA reports, a day after it was passed by Parliament. The law has been referred to the premier’s office before going to the president

16 January 2021