Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Tuesday issued a memo asking banks to allow depositors with foreign currency accounts exceeding $5,000 in value to withdraw their savings in Lebanese pounds at the “market rate,” likely to signify 2,600 pounds to the dollar. He had issued a similar memo in recent ... Read More »
Lebanon’s parliament sat Tuesday in a conference hall in Beirut to allow for social distancing between lawmakers amid the coronavirus pandemic, while outside anti-government protesters demonstrated in a car convoy. As the country struggles with a battered economy, MPs approved a $120 million loan from the World Bank to help ... Read More »
Prime Minister Hassan Diab chaired on Tuesday the meeting of the Ministerial Committee tasked with fighting corruption at the Grand Serail. Discussions tackled the draft laws related to the mechanism of recovery of stolen funds. They also highlighted the importance of requesting the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation ... Read More »
For the second day in a row, teams dispatched by the Ministry of Health continued on Tuesday conducting random PCR tests across Lebanon to detect Coronavirus cases. Read More »
The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that no new Coronavirus cases were registered today in Lebanon. This as 677 Coronavirus cases were recorded so far in Lebanon. LBCI Read More »
Minister of Public Health, Hamad Hassan, held a meeting in his office today with the representative of the World Health Organization in Lebanon, Iman al-Shankiti, which was also attended by the Ministry’s Director General, Walid Ammar, where talks centered on the coordination between the Health Ministry and the WHO, and ... Read More »
Rafic Hariri University Hospital announced on Monday, in its daily report on the latest developments of emerging Corona virus that 95 laboratory tests were performed and the results all came out negative. The report indicated that the total number of laboratory-confirmed infected cases with the Coronavirus that are currently present ... Read More »
Two new cases of the novel coronavirus have been confirmed in Lebanon by the Ministry of Public Health in a statement on Monday, raising the number of infected people in the country to 677. NNA Read More »
The Rafic Hariri University Hospital announced Sunday, in its daily report on the developments of the corona epidemic, that out of 227 laboratory tests performed, 5 new infections with the Covid-19 virus belonging to the same family have been registered while the remaining tests came out negative. The report added ... Read More »
With Lebanese confined to their homes by the new coronavirus, migratory birds in the Mediterranean country are winging their way into the midst of quieter city life. From flocks of white pelicans and storks soaring over Beirut’s seafront to diminutive herons nesting in built-up neighbourhoods, Lebanese social media are capturing ... Read More »
Lebanese Ministry of Information