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Justice served? 25 people were detained after the port explosion, but don’t know the charges against them — part I of II

What do Badri Daher, the customs director at Beirut’s port; Maj. Joseph Naddaf, the head of the port’s State Security office and the person who alerted authorities to the danger of the ammonium...

Marie Jo SADER, 22 January 2021

Justice served? The story of Nayla al-Hage, detained indefinitely in the port explosion case — part II of II

“Fortunately, Nayla was not at home when the explosion went off. She loved to sit in this chair, right under this painting that was completely torn to pieces. She would have been disfigured,” says...

Marie Jo SADER, 22 January 2021

As hospitals hit capacity, coronavirus patients overflow into emergency rooms

BEIRUT — Having sounded the alarm for weeks, hospitals treating COVID-19 patients appear to have hit the breaking point, forcing them to send an increasing number of less critically ill patients...

Emily Lewis, 22 January 2021

Order of Physicians head Charaf Abou Charaf says that medical personnel will be the first to receive Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, set to start arriving in early February, adding that registration for the doses will be done through the Health Ministry or the order, the NNA reports

22 January 2021

MP Hussein Hajj Hasan (Hezbollah/Baalbeck-Hermel) tweets that Hezbollah’s health personnel in the Bekaa have mobilized to confront the COVID-19 pandemic, with measures including equipping hospitals, transporting patients and burying the dead

22 January 2021

The Industry Ministry has requested that the Association of Lebanese Industrialists ask its members to inform the ministry of any containers with dangerous substances at the port, the NNA reports

22 January 2021

Eid Azar, an infectious disease specialist at Saint George Hospital, tweets that 57 percent of COVID-19 cases at the hospital from Dec. 30 to Jan. 8 had the N501Y mutation, which is present in the UK and South African variants of the virus

22 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 3,220 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Fifty-seven more people have died from the virus, bringing the death toll to 2,218

22 January 2021

Demonstrators in Tripoli also blocked traffic through Al-Nour Square in protest over deteriorating living conditions amid the COVID-19 lockdown, the NNA reports

22 January 2021

Protesters in Bab al-Tabbaneh have blocked the Tripoli-Akkar highway to protest rising prices and worsening economic conditions amid the COVID-19 lockdown, the NNA reports. Earlier demonstrators blocked the highway farther east near Beddawi

22 January 2021

In a telephone call with UN Secretary-General António Guterres, caretaker Premier Hassan Diab requested that the UN help provide 200 ICU beds for Lebanon as well as support for a COVID-19 vaccine campaign for all residents in the country

22 January 2021

The Israeli military claims that it downed a drone that had crossed from Lebanon into occupied Palestine

22 January 2021

At a sit-in outside the Tripoli office of the Syndicate of Bakery Owners in North Lebanon, the syndicate head called on the caretaker Economy Minister Raoul Nehme to “fulfill his promise to subsidize sugar and yeast,” the NNA reports

22 January 2021

Responding to concerns about BDL's capture of dollars from a World Bank-funded social safety net program, Jha said that World Bank officials plan to “establish a mechanism … to make sure that the [funds] that are coming to Lebanon are managed in a very accountable manner”

22 January 2021

Discussing World Bank funding of COVID-19 vaccines for Lebanon with reporters, the bank’s regional director Saroj Kumar Jha said the vaccine must be given to Lebanese and non-Lebanese alike, including refugees and migrant workers, because “nobody is safe until everybody is safe”

22 January 2021

Rafik Hariri University Hospital is treating 20 coronavirus patients in the hospital's ER because regular and ICU rooms are full, said Hussein Kataya, the nurse in charge of the hospital’s coronavirus emergencies. The ER isn’t adequately equipped to treat COVID-19 cases

22 January 2021

President Michel Aoun has said that given the present “high pressure” circumstances he feels he "does not need to repeat the call" for Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri to submit a cabinet lineup draft that “takes into account equitable representation”

22 January 2021

Clearance complications have led to 160 oxygen concentrator machines being stuck at the airport since last Friday, the head of the medical equipment importers’ syndicate Salma Assi tells L’Orient Today. These machines are used in the treatment of COVID-19

22 January 2021

Hospitals in Saida and surrounding areas reached full capacity last night and currently do not have any regular or ICU beds available for COVID-19 patients, the Union of Saida-Zahrani Municipalities said in a statement

22 January 2021

Lockdown extension, record deaths, vaccines on the horizon: Everything you need to know to start your Friday

Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon’s COVID-19 lockdown was extended another two weeks as death tolls from the virus keep mounting, with a record 67...

22 January 2021