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‘The real surge hasn’t even started yet’: Lebanon locks down again, but it may be too little, too late

BEIRUT — Starting Thursday, Lebanon will enter a three-week countrywide lockdown in a desperate attempt to hold back a dangerous surge in COVID-19, strikingly accented by Wednesday’s record...

Emily Lewis, 6 January 2021

Penalties for non-compliance with the COVID-19 lockdown that comes into force tomorrow will increase to a fine of between LL100,000 and LL600,000 and/or up to three months in prison, the Internal Security Forces has announced in a statement

6 January 2021

The man suffered burns on one of his arms and is in stable condition, a correspondent at our sister publication L'Orient-Le Jour reports

6 January 2021

The man who set himself on fire in Burj al-Barajneh was a taxi driver who suffered from kidney disease but did not have any health insurance, the head of the Dora taxi drivers’ syndicate tells L’Orient Today

6 January 2021

A man has been taken to hospital after he set himself and his car on fire on the Airport Road in the Burj al-Barajneh area, an eyewitness tells L'Orient Today

6 January 2021

Lebanon has registered a new record of 4,166 COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours. Twenty-one more people have died, bringing the total death toll to 1,537

6 January 2021

We should not mourn justice

Two days after Christmas, I visited Martyrs’ Square, where my father, best friend and mentor, Mohamad Chatah, was buried following his assassination seven years ago. Those that loved him continue...

Ronnie CHATAH, 6 January 2021

MP Ali Khreis (Amal/Sur) has tested positive for COVID-19 but is in good health, his office has announced

6 January 2021

The hearing of eight senior military officers charged with illicit enrichment, scheduled for Friday, has been postponed due to the suspension of non-urgent hearings during the lockdown, a lawyer with knowledge of the case told L'Orient Today

6 January 2021

Parliament’s health committee head MP Assem Araji has told VDL (100.5) that he opposes various exceptions included in the countrywide lockdown, labeling them counterproductive and blaming the rise in the number of COVID-19 cases on lack of enforcement of the state's measures

6 January 2021

Caretaker Industry Minister Imad Hoballah has told VDL (100.5) that factories will close from Monday despite being excluded from a countrywide lockdown due to commence tomorrow as the country grapples with its most severe outbreak yet of COVID-19

6 January 2021

Parliament’s health committee has called for a re-evaluation of the COVID-19 restrictions that come into force tomorrow, saying in a statement that the numerous exceptions to the lockdown “give the virus another opportunity to continue its lethal spread”

6 January 2021

Caretaker Energy Minister Raymond Ghajar has announced that the period for initial exploration for gas in maritime blocks 4 and 9 has been extended to August 2022 after delays due to COVID-19 and the port blast. An international consortium had been contracted to drill by May 2021

6 January 2021