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Hospital treats COVID-19 patients in its parking lot as space, equipment and personnel challenges persist across much of Lebanon

BEIRUT — At least one Beirut hospital is housing coronavirus patients in tents outdoors, as the health sector’s battle against COVID-19 rages on. Emile Ghazal, the marketing coordinator at LAU...

Rana Tabbara, 30 January 2021

A group of demonstrators gathered at Elia roundabout in Saida in protest of the series of arrests taking place in Tripoli, the NNA reports

30 January 2021

Pfizer has confirmed that its first vaccine delivery to Lebanon will arrive mid-February, caretaker Health Minister Hamad Hassan said on Twitter, adding that “Covax officially notified us that the first shipment of the AstraZeneca vaccine will arrive in the last week of February”

30 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 2,631 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Sixty-one more people have died from the virus, raising the death toll to 3,031

30 January 2021

The army's director of operations, Gen. Jean Chidiac, has chaired a security meeting in Tripoli urging coordination between law enforcement agencies, the NNA reports. Chidiac said the military is ready to provide support to preserve civil peace in the city and prevent riots

30 January 2021

Protesters have gathered in front of caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi's house in Qoreitem, Beirut, chanting slogans denouncing the treatment of protesters in Tripoli, the NNA reports, adding that security forces have deployed in the area

30 January 2021

Around 200 protesters are burning tires at Tripoli's Abou Ali roundabout as they call for the army to release 17-year-old Talal Shaaban, who they say has been falsely accused of setting Tripoli’s municipality building alight on Thursday night

30 January 2021

Activists have gathered in Martyrs’ Square in Beirut in solidarity with protesters in Tripoli, the NNA reports, while in Hasbaya protesters marched through the town in support of Tripoli’s ongoing protests against the dire economic situation and coronavirus lockdown

30 January 2021

Food aid will be distributed to 50,000 needy families in Tripoli, the office of caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab has tweeted, without giving a timeline for the distribution

30 January 2021

Women blocked Minyeh International Highway in both directions in protest of deteriorating living conditions amid the ongoing economic crisis and coronavirus lockdown. Drivers going to Tripoli or Akkar had to search for alternative routes to their destinations, the NNA reports

30 January 2021

A small group of Baalbeck merchants protested in front of the town’s serail, demanding state aid and permission to open their shops for a few hours per day, the NNA reports. The group threatened not to abide by future lockdown orders if its demands are not met

30 January 2021

How the COVID-19 lockdown has brought Lebanon’s vital manufacturing sector to its knees

BEIRUT — While other countries have championed manufacturing and export industries as sources of ongoing revenue during successive lockdowns, Lebanon has shuttered them almost completely, putting...

Georgi Azar, 30 January 2021