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Officials will weigh extending the COVID-19 lockdown as the pandemic stretches hospitals to their limit
BEIRUT — President Michel Aoun is set to chair a meeting of the Higher Defense Council Thursday, as health officials and doctors call for an extension of the current strict lockdown. A source at...
Emily Lewis, 20 January 2021
Turkish prosecutors have asked for jail sentences for three defendants charged with helping smuggle disgraced businessman Carlos Ghosn from Japan to Lebanon via Istanbul in December 2019, AFP reports
20 January 2021
Lebanon has registered 64 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours, setting a new record for the third day running, while 4,332 people have tested positive for the virus. The total death toll now stands at 2,084
20 January 2021
Finding the drugs that just might save Lebanon’s COVID-19 patients is far from guaranteed
BEIRUT — As hospitals treat the largest number of COVID-19 patients since the start of the pandemic, staff are overworked, intensive care units are understaffed, and beds are full. And now health...
Emily Lewis, 20 January 2021
Hani Bohsali, head of the Syndicate of Importers of Foodstuffs in Lebanon, has warned that due to supermarkets’ trouble meeting demand through deliveries, continuing to close them will “inevitably lead to overcrowding” once they are reopened for shoppers, the NNA reports
20 January 2021
Dozens of airport taxi drivers gathered in front of Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport to protest lockdown regulations that prevent them from operating. Only approved quarantine hotels’ taxi drivers are presently permitted to transport passengers from the airport
20 January 2021
Caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan tweets a photo of his discharge from the St Georges Hadath Hospital, where he has been receiving care for COVID-19, and thanks the medical staff. Hassan was admitted to the hospital on Jan. 13
20 January 2021
President Aoun has met with caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni to discuss a forensic audit that stalled last year when Alvarez & Marsal, the firm contracted to conduct it, quit over BDL’s refusal to submit documents. The firm recently inquired about renewing its contract
20 January 2021
Worsening pandemic, Swiss probe, politics as usual: Everything you need to know to start your Wednesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . For a second day running, Lebanon registered a new record COVID-19 death tally, with 61 victims. While the numbers are...
