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Pressure builds on hospitals as 2021’s coronavirus surge floods ICUs with patients

BEIRUT — Hospitals continued to struggle under the strain of a weekslong explosion of COVID-19 cases Saturday as residents hunkered down under stay-at-home orders meant to curb the disease’s...

Omar Tamo, 23 January 2021

Caretaker Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm and the head of the Higher Judicial Council, Suhail Abboud, have extended the suspension of hearings and administrative work in courts and judicial offices until the countrywide COVID-19 lockdown ends on Feb. 8

23 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 4,176 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Fifty-two more people have died from the virus, raising the death toll to 2,280

23 January 2021

A group of people in Beddawi has blocked the Tripoli-Minyeh highway with trucks to protest deteriorating living conditions and the extension of the COVID-19 lockdown until Feb. 8, the NNA reports

23 January 2021

A small group of people is protesting against the extension of the COVID-19 lockdown at Elia Square in Saida before marching toward the city’s serail, the NNA reports. The lockdown has been criticized for its failure to provide for those who rely on daily wages and the vulnerable

23 January 2021