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Hospitals are still struggling to keep up with COVID-19 patients needing ICUs, even as new cases begin to drop

BEIRUT — The COVID-19 situation in at least some hospitals is on the cusp of stabilization, but ICU capacity remains a major obstacle for facilities across Lebanon, with over 900 patients requiring...

Georgi Azar, 31 January 2021

The Lebanese Army says that it has arrested 17 people for a number of alleged offenses related to the protests in Tripoli in recent days

31 January 2021

A group of demonstrators has blocked the airport road at Beirut’s Qasqas area, the Traffic Management Center reports

31 January 2021

Security forces have fired tear gas to push back protesters at the Tripoli serail, the headquarters of the North Lebanon governorate and one of the sites of recent demonstrations against the COVID-19 lockdown

31 January 2021

Lebanon has registered 2,139 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours. Fifty-one more people have died from the virus, raising the death toll to 3,082

31 January 2021

A group of demonstrators has gathered at Beirut’s Ring Road to protest the arrest of activist Rabih Labaki, who was detained in relation to the recent Tripoli protests

31 January 2021

A group of protesters rallied in Baalbeck’s Khalil Moutran Square amid a heavy security presence, demanding looted funds be recovered and corrupt figures held accountable, the NNA reports

31 January 2021

Caretaker Interior Minister Mohamed Fehmi claimed in an interview with Al-Jadeed that security services “did not commit mistakes in Tripoli.” Last Wednesday, security forces fired live rounds at a crowd of demonstrators in the city’s Al-Nour Square

31 January 2021

The ISF says that it arrested the head of a criminal gang luring people to Brital with the offer of selling US dollars in order to rob them. When arrested, the detainee allegedly was in possession of a firearm, narcotics, 29,600 counterfeit US dollars, and LL9 million

31 January 2021

At least 200 demonstrators have gathered in Tripoli’s Al-Nour Square, joined by a group of protesters who have arrived from Beirut

31 January 2021

The first of the 11 Lebanese nationals to be freed from detention in the UAE has arrived at Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport, the NNA reports. General Security chief Abbas Ibrahim spoke Friday about the upcoming releases, without giving details on the case

31 January 2021

Middle East Airlines has announced the cancellation of all flights to Saudi Arabia from Feb. 1 to Feb. 8, with the exception of one repatriation flight from Riyadh to Beirut on Feb. 4. Flights to Paris have also been slashed to three per week

31 January 2021

Career politician Michel Murr has passed away after complications from COVID-19. At 89 years old, he was the oldest member of Parliament. He had assumed several positions during the Syrian hegemony over Lebanon, including as minister of defense and later interior in the 1990s

31 January 2021