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The IMF urges quick cabinet formation, calling it ‘critical’ to implementing reforms
NEW YORK — A new Lebanese government with a clear mandate is essential to implement badly needed economic reforms to pull the country out of financial crisis, the International Monetary Fund...
25 March 2021
Lebanon has registered 3,560 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Sixty-one more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 5,964
25 March 2021
Employees at Middle East Airlines and Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport will receive the Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine for free starting on Tuesday, the airline announced. MEA is set to be the first private sector company to acquire doses from local firm Pharmaline
25 March 2021
A ship left the Lebanese coast this morning to pick up 308 tons of oxygen from Turkey and is expected to arrive in Tripoli on Saturday morning, the Public Works and Transport Ministry said. The caretaker health minister warned yesterday that the country is running low on oxygen
25 March 2021
Caretaker Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni signed a decree to transfer funds from the budget reserves to the Health Ministry to cover the cost of 1.5 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 inoculations. The first shipment will arrive during the first week of April, the Finance Ministry said
25 March 2021
The COVID-19 committee also recommended that the overnight curfew begin at 10 p.m., rather than 8 p.m., and that opening hours be extended at restaurants, cafes and retail stores until 9 p.m. Street markets should remain closed and large gatherings should remain prohibited
25 March 2021
The national COVID-19 committee has recommended a six-month extension to the general mobilization ahead of a meeting of the Higher Defense Council tomorrow. It also called for religious authorities to play a role in reducing coronavirus risk during Easter and Ramadan celebrations
25 March 2021
From April 1, Lebanese nationals will no longer be required to seek special permission to travel to Cyprus, MEA has announced. However, they will still need to have a valid visa, test negative 72 hours before traveling and fill in a “Cyprus flight pass” form online
25 March 2021
The Beirut and Mount Lebanon Water Corporation has been forced to temporarily cut off water supply to areas of Kesrouan and Metn after storms and heavy rainfall caused pump malfunctions and excess turbidity — a reduction in water clarity/purity — it said in a statement
25 March 2021
President Michel Aoun has called for a session of the Higher Defense Council at 10 a.m. tomorrow to discuss the state of general mobilization, which was introduced a year ago to implement COVID-19 measures and expires at the end of this month
25 March 2021
The ER at Rafik Hariri University Hospital is "severely congested" and only accepting life-threatening cases, as private hospitals’ demands for “exuberantly high cash deposits” prior to admission push patients toward public facilities, the hospital’s director Firass Abiad tweets
25 March 2021
Oxygen from Syria, Beirut blast investigator looks abroad, Parliament’s next agenda: Everything you need to know
Want to get the Morning Brief by email? Click here to sign up . Syria is set to deliver 75 tons of oxygen to Lebanon after the caretaker health minister made an “emergency” trip to Damascus ....
25 March 2021
How the theft of metal took down a power pylon — and threatens to plunge Lebanon into darkness
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s electrical grid is the newest target in a trend of metal thefts that officials believe are being carried out by residents rendered desperate by the country’s grave economic...
