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Demand for ICUs rises, but beds are hard to find as the COVID-19 surge persists
BEIRUT — Lebanon began a new week of strict COVID-19 lockdown on Monday with no respite from the surge in hospitalizations and deaths, while protests persisted in the country’s second city of...
Georgi Azar, 25 January 2021
The Lebanese Red Cross said it transported four people who were wounded in Tripoli protests to nearby hospitals. Ten other wounded protesters were treated at the scene. Demonstrators had gathered in the city to protest the COVID-19 lockdown and lack of state aid
25 January 2021
UNRWA and caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan agreed on a plan to vaccinate Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, the NNA reports. The plan aims to give priority to medical personnel and set-up vaccination centers close to the most populated refugee camps
25 January 2021
Demonstrators in Tripoli pelted the Serail, the headquarters of the Governorate of North Lebanon, with rocks during a protest against poor living conditions exacerbated by the COVID-19 lockdown, the NNA reports. Security forces intervened to stop people from entering the building
25 January 2021
Lebanon has registered 2,652 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Fifty-four more people have died from the virus, raising the death toll to 2,404
25 January 2021
Protesters marched through Tripoli's streets denouncing the COVID-19 lockdown and deteriorating living conditions in the country, the NNA reports. Some blocked Abdel Hamid Square with tires. The government has failed to provide aid to the vulnerable during successive lockdowns
25 January 2021
The Finance Ministry has released 9 million LL250 fiscal stamps into the market. These fiscal stamps are required to complete public paperwork
25 January 2021
Central bank governor Riad Salameh has denied media allegations that he transferred $400 million to Swiss banks, calling numbers “exaggerated” with “no connection to reality.” Swiss judicial authorities launched a probe last week into the transfer of funds out of Lebanon
25 January 2021
The Consumer Protection Directorate at the Ministry of Economy along with security forces has found and seized a quantity of expired frozen meat from a butcher’s shop in the Sabra area of Beirut, MTV reports, adding that two butchers were arrested
25 January 2021
Protesters have gathered at Natout Park at Elia Junction in Saida to object to high living costs and their inability to secure basic needs during the countrywide coronavirus lockdown, the NNA reports
25 January 2021
A man seen beating a member of the Internal Security Forces in a video that has been circulating on social media since yesterday has been detained. The person, identified as C.K., was apprehended in Sad al-Bouchrieh, the ISF said in a tweet
25 January 2021
The Civil Defense maritime rescue team has recovered the body of an unidentified individual in their 60s from the sea at Jbeil, the NNA reports, adding that the body was examined by security forces and forensic doctors, and then transferred to a hospital
25 January 2021
The Information Ministry has released a list of 42 hospitals approved to administer COVID-19 vaccines once they become available. Geographically, nine approved hospitals are in Beirut, 11 in Mount Lebanon, 11 in the north, six in the south and five in the Bekaa Valley
25 January 2021
Firass Abiad, the head of Rafik Hariri University Hospital, has warned that the country’s ICUs, now 94.4% full, will likely face greater demand this week. Despite the lockdown, he tweeted that “there is scant evidence that the spread is decreasing,” and that “lockdowns take time”
25 January 2021
New week of lockdown, economic protests, vaccine registration: Everything you need to know this Monday
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Lebanon enters its second full week of 24-hour COVID-19 lockdown as the number of patients in intensive care units hit an...
