Health Minister Hamad Hasan noted on Wednesday that home quarantine is inevitable in order to stop the spread of coronavirus, adding that the government could consider a lockdown extension. In a statement he made after the introduction of coronavirus PCR examination device to the Baalbek Governmental Hospital, he assured that ... Read More »
President Donald Trump’s predictions that victory is close in the coronavirus crisis are becoming increasingly impossible to square with the harrowing escalation of America’s battle against the pandemic. Trump on Tuesday spied “light at the end of the tunnel” and envisioned packed church pews at Easter as America breaks free ... Read More »
Spain records 738 deaths in past 24 hours, while death toll in Italy now double that of Hubei Spain’s coronavirus death toll has overtaken China’s, climbing to 3,434, while a slowdown in the rate of new infections in Italy has raised hopes that the peak of its outbreak could be ... Read More »
Restrictions on movement prevent food and medicine from reaching people in adversity, experts warn Stringent new international restrictions on movement introduced because of the coronavirus pandemic are threatening the lives of millions of people across the world already caught up in humanitarian emergencies. UN agencies, aid groups and international ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, said in the wake of the Cabinet session held this Tuesday at the Grand Serail, that Prime Minister Dr Hassan Diab has stressed that it is the duty of the state to help people and that social solidarity among the Lebanese is ... Read More »
World leaders deliver joint statement seeking to calm fears of global depression The world’s seven key western economies have sought to calm mounting fears of a global depression by pledging to do whatever it takes to get through the coronavirus pandemic, after early warning signs showed the steepest plunge in ... Read More »
Figures go against Trump talk of restarting economy, as other countries tighten controls The US could become the new centre of the global coronavirus pandemic, according to the World Health Organization, which said case numbers were rising quickly there even asDonald Trump talked of reopening the country for business. “We ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Tuesday confirmed that the Lebanese government was exerting relentless efforts to combat the novel Coronavirus and limit its spread across the nation. She affirmed that the state was handling the matter with absolute transparency by means of announcing virus updates and ... Read More »
Prime Minister Hassan Diab chaired on Tuesday the first meeting of the Inter-ministerial Committee for Social Affairs, in the presence of Ministers of Defense Zeina Akar, Foreign Affairs Nassif Hitti, Interior Mohammad Fahmi, Social Affairs Ramzi Musharrafieh, Economy Raoul Nehme, Finance Ghazi Wazni, Agriculture Abbas Mortada, Information Manal Abdel Samad, ... Read More »
Speaker Nabih Berri said he deliberated with Prime Minister Hassan Diab the need to declare a state of emergency over coronavirus fears which has become a necessity in light of an increase in the number of people infected with the virus, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday. Berri said that Diab ... Read More »
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