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Lebanon has registered 2,723 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Fifty-nine more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 4,446
23 February 2021
Michel Aoun, his wife Nadia, as well as ten members of the president’s close team and one of his lieutenants received COVID-19 inoculations after registering their names on the national vaccination platform, the president’s media office announced
23 February 2021
The parliament’s joint committees on finance and social affairs approved the draft law for the proposed World Bank social safety net project, MP Alain Aoun (FPM/Baabda) told L’Orient Today, adding that it will be voted on in the floor of the parliament at its next session
23 February 2021
Lebanon's cash for power generation may run out at the end of March, says minister
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s Energy Ministry cannot pay for fuel to generate electricity beyond March unless more financing is approved, the caretaker energy minister said on Tuesday. Lebanon, which is...
23 February 2021
The World Bank’s regional director for the Middle East told L’Orient Today that the international agency monitoring Lebanon’s COVID-19 vaccination program confirmed a clear violation of the national inoculation plan
23 February 2021
The body of a newborn child has been found in a waste container in Beirut’s Basta al-Tahta neighborhood, the NNA reports. Earlier this month, the body of another newborn child was found along the side of the Khaldeh highway south of the capital
23 February 2021
MP Anis Nassar (LF/Aley), who received a COVID-19 vaccine today at Parliament, says he registered on the vaccination platform on Jan. 29 and got a call from Parliament yesterday inviting him to receive the shot. He apologized but said he is "not responsible for what happened”
23 February 2021
Bizri added that today’s “breach cannot be tolerated,” saying that “a real statesman waits for his turn like any citizen” and adding that the Health Ministry is responsible for sending the vaccines to Parliament
23 February 2021
Head of the COVID-19 vaccination committee Abdul Rahman Bizri has said he will not resign but has called for clarification after 16 MPs were vaccinated at Parliament today in what he described as “a breach that hurts people’s confidence in the vaccination campaign”
23 February 2021
Five of Parliament’s staff were also vaccinated in addition to 16 MPs, Parliament’s secretary-general, Adnan Daher, told L’Orient Today. This includes Daher himself who is 80 years old
23 February 2021
Lebanon’s vaccination program is thrown into question as MPs appear to bypass rules to get inoculated
BEIRUT — The integrity of Lebanon’s COVID-19 vaccination plan was cast into doubt after MPs from several major political blocs received inoculations in a move the World Bank said was a violation of...
Ghada Alsharif, 23 February 2021
Head of Lebanon’s COVID-19 vaccine committee Abdul Rahman Bizri has told LBCI that he will resign in a news conference at 2 p.m. This comes after news that 16 MPs were vaccinated at Parliament today
23 February 2021
A joint parliamentary committee has passed a $246 million World Bank loan agreement to fund cash transfers to 147,000 vulnerable Lebanese families. The proposed arrangement will now be passed to Parliament for approval
23 February 2021
Adnan Daher, Parliament’s secretary-general, has confirmed to L’Orient Today that 16 MPs over the age of 75 were vaccinated today at Parliament after registering on the COVID-19 platform
23 February 2021
No more bread and games
Since Roman times, the tried and tested tools used by the ruling classes in order to appease the poorest have always been “ panem et circenses ,” or bread and circuses. And for the past three...
Sami HALABI, 23 February 2021
Following images of crowds flocking to the snow in Faraya over the weekend, RHUH head Firass Abiad has cautioned people against relaxing their commitment to COVID-19 preventive measures, reminding them in a tweet that just weeks ago patients were being treated in parking lots
23 February 2021
Terrorism charges, oil spill damage, vaccine registration concerns: Everything you need to know this Tuesday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . A prosecutor at the Military Tribunal charged 35 Tripoli protesters with terrorism-related offenses. Ayman Raad, an attorney...
