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Despite records, the real surge in COVID-19 deaths and hospitalizations is likely still to come, health professionals warn
BEIRUT — Despite a record number of deaths from coronavirus Tuesday, Lebanon should brace itself for a surge in hospitalizations and deaths in the coming weeks, health experts have warned, as...
Georgi Azar, 19 January 2021
Lebanon has registered 61 new COVID-19 deaths in the last 24-hours, a record tally for the second day running, while 4,359 people have tested positive. The total death toll now stands at 2,020
19 January 2021
How a World Bank loan to support Lebanon’s most vulnerable will also shore up a crumbling financial system
BEIRUT — After months of negotiations, the World Bank Group announced last week that its governing board had approved plans for a $246 million loan that would go toward setting up a stronger...
Abby Sewell, 19 January 2021
Lebanon has handed back to Greece two eighteenth-century icons of Jesus and Mary that were stolen in Athens in 2016, a judicial source told AFP, adding that the icons were seized at an auction in Lebanon
19 January 2021
The Swiss Office of the Attorney General says in a statement it sent a request for mutual legal assistance to authorities in Lebanon regarding its investigation into “aggravated money laundering … in connection with possible embezzlement to the detriment of the Banque du Liban”
19 January 2021
Caretaker Premier Hassan Diab held successive meetings with PM-designate Saad Hariri, Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri and President Michel Aoun, saying after his sit-down with the president that Aoun and Hariri would meet soon to discuss the stalled government-formation process
19 January 2021
BDL’s governor has denied allegations he transferred funds abroad “in his name, his brother’s name or his assistant's name.” Salameh’s statement follows news of a Swiss inquiry into transfers by the governor and an Al-Akhbar report alleging he made transfers worth $400 million
19 January 2021
President Michel Aoun has called a special meeting of the Higher Defense Council to be held on Thursday at Baabda palace. The meeting comes as hospitals struggle to accommodate COVID-19 cases and health professionals call for extending the countrywide full lockdown
19 January 2021
Caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm has received a request from Swiss judicial authorities to collaborate on an inquiry into money transfers by BDL governor Riad Salameh, Reuters reports, adding that Najm said she has submitted the request to the public prosecutor
19 January 2021
Four ways Lebanon can import fuel to keep the lights on, and why they all might fail
BEIRUT — Sonatrach’s contract to supply Lebanon with fuel to power its electricity stations ended on Dec. 31. To date, no replacement supplier has been found, but caretaker Energy Minister Raymond...
Omar Tamo, 19 January 2021
The head of the pharmacists’ syndicate, Ghassan Al-Amin, told Asharq al-Awsat that Riad Salameh’s declarations that Lebanon is heading toward ending subsidies have pushed people to hoard medicine, adding that stockpiling drugs, “just like the dollar, makes the Lebanese feel safe”
19 January 2021
Firass Abiad, the general manager of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, has tweeted that “easing the lockdown cannot occur if the virus is spreading unchecked,” adding that the current COVID-19 positivity rate and ICU occupancy signal that the pandemic is “not under control”
19 January 2021
Record deaths, delayed deliveries, Bekaa floods: Everything you need to know to start your Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon registered a macabre new record of 53 COVID-19 deaths yesterday as the health catastrophe gripping the country worsens....
