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The head of the Order of Physicians, Charaf Abou Charaf, told LBCI that two to three weeks more of lockdown are necessary before opening the country, saying that Lebanon was in the beginning of a disaster

17 January 2021

Overrun hospitals plead for more staff to confront COVID-19 nightmare

BEIRUT — With Lebanon’s COVID-19 pandemic overwhelming hospitals, medical facilities are in critical need of more staff, including nurses, to boost capacity to handle the flood of people seeking...

Albin Szakola, 17 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 3,654 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Forty more people have died from the virus

17 January 2021

A Hezbollah media official says the organization has distributed heating fuel to 20,000 families in the Bekaa Valley in order to help them cope with the winter weather, the NNA reports

17 January 2021

MP Inaya Ezzeddine (Amal/Sur) has appealed to the caretaker premier and health minister to supply hospitals in Sur and its environs with necessary medical equipment for confronting the COVID-19 pandemic, such as respirators and equipment for ICUs, the NNA reports

17 January 2021

The Ftouh Kesrouan Governmental Hospital in the town of Bouar has announced it is in urgent need of nurses in order to expand the hospital’s capacity amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the NNA reports

17 January 2021

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan has signed a finalized contract will Pfizer for the supply of 2.1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that will start arriving gradually from the beginning of February, according to a statement from his ministry

17 January 2021

The meteorological department at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport warns that stormy weather today is expected to bring wind gusts of up to 80 km/h, torrential rains and hail, with snowfall in areas down to 1,400 meters in altitude

17 January 2021

BLOM Bank has announced in a press release that it signed an agreement with Bahrain-headquartered Arab Banking Corporation (Bank ABC) to sell its entire 99.4% stake in BLOM Bank Egypt for $427 million, adding that the sale is subject to obtaining regulatory approvals

17 January 2021

In his Sunday sermon, Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai called on President Michel Aoun to invite Premier-designate Saad Hariri for a “personal reconciliation” meeting to restore confidence between the two and move forward on the stalled cabinet formation process

17 January 2021

Abdul Rahman Bizri, a member of the national scientific committee for COVID-19, tells VDL radio 100.3 that the first batches of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine might arrive in Lebanon between Feb. 7-14 if “all goes well”

17 January 2021

Firass Abiad, the head of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, tweets that Syndicate of Private Hospitals head Sleiman Haroun’s grim warning on hospitals reaching capacity is correct, especially in Beirut, Mount Lebanon and Nabatieh

17 January 2021

Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan’s press office says the ministry has requested that Qatari-donated field hospitals originally destined for Sur be relocated to Beirut. Work is ongoing to set up the other Qatari-donated field hospitals in Tripoli and nearby Sir al-Dinnieh

17 January 2021