The Disaster Risk Management Unit has announced a list of destinations that will no longer require a lockdown permit from the Impact system beginning on Monday. Permission will still be required to go to supermarkets, banks and other locations 28 February 2021
Lebanon has registered 2,258 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Forty more people have died, raising the death toll to 4,692 28 February 2021
The caretaker justice minister and Higher Judicial Council have announced that court sessions, with the exception of urgent ones, will be suspended until March 8 as part of the ongoing COVID-19 lockdown 28 February 2021
A young woman died from her wounds after being shot in the town of Iaat outside Baalbeck, our sister publication L’Orient-Le Jour reports, adding that her death was an honor killing between rival clans 28 February 2021
Israel’s military says it has detained a suspect accused of crossing the border from Lebanon into occupied Palestine, adding that the man was transferred to security forces for questioning 28 February 2021
Residents have blocked the Salim Salam and Corniche al-Mazraa roads in Beirut to protest increased power outages. Lebanon’s state electricity company on Thursday said the electricity situation would improve, but offered no timeline 28 February 2021
St. George Hospital says that everyone it has vaccinated were registered on the national COVID-19 platform, adding that to speed up the process it inoculated registrants without appointments. Excluding medical staff, the average age of those vaccinated was 80, the hospital said 28 February 2021
MP Hasan Fadlallah (Hezbollah/Bint Jbeil) told LBCI that his party does not agree with Maronite Patriarch Bechara al-Rai’s calls for an international conference on Lebanon, adding that “internationalization is a danger to Lebanon” 28 February 2021
Lebanon-Israel truce stalls over withdrawal zones; US plans Hormuz transit levy: Everything you need to know this Tuesday
