Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Monday tweeted, “May the soul of Lebanon’s angel, Dr. Loai Ismail, rest in peace, who has met his fate after contracting the coronavirus from one of the patients. He [Dr. Ismail] devoted his time and life to help others in the ... Read More »
UK signals it will suspend extradition treaty with Hong Kong
Private The UK’s foreign secretary Dominic Raab is expected to suspend the country’s extradition treaty with Hong Kong on Monday over China’s moves against the city-state. The extradition treaty means that, if someone in Hong Kong is suspected of a crime in the UK, then the British authorities can ask ... Read More »
Symptom tracker app reveals six distinct types of COVID-19 infection
British scientists analysing data from a widely-used COVID-19 symptom-tracking app have found there are six distinct types of the disease, each distinguished by a cluster of symptoms. A King’s College London team found that the six types also correlated with levels of severity of infection, and with the likelihood of ... Read More »
Ministry of Health confirms 84 new Coronavirus cases
The Ministry of Health issued on Sunday its daily report on Coronavirus in which it said that 84 new infections were registered in the country. The ministry added that 65 cases were locally transmitted and 19 cases were recorded among the returnees. LBCI Read More »
Closest ever images of sun reveal it is covered in miniature flares
Solar Orbiter images shot from between Venus and Mercury orbits show ‘campfires’ in corona The closest ever images of the sun reveal its surface is speckled with “campfires”, miniature versions of the dramatic solar flares visible from Earth. The observations, beamed back from the Solar Orbiter spacecraft, which is ... Read More »
UAE Successfully Launches Hope Probe, Arab World’s First Mission to Mars
A rocket carrying the unmanned probe, known as Al-Amal in Arabic, joins China and US in race to red planet The first Arab space mission to Mars has blasted off aboard a rocket from Japan, with its unmanned probe – called Al-Amal, or Hope – successfully separating about an hour after liftoff. ... Read More »
Ministry of Health confirms 75 new Coronavirus cases
The Ministry of Health issued on Saturday its daily report on Coronavirus in which it said that 75 new infection were registered in the country. The ministry added that 55 cases were locally transmitted and 20 cases were recorded among the returnees. NNA Read More »
Coronavirus cases jump to 101-Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 101 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country. The new cases were distributed as follows: 80 cases among the residents and 21 among the returnees. The ministry noted in its daily report that no deaths among the Coronavirus patients were registered ... Read More »
Abdel Samad, Hoballah to form working group for industry-specialized media
Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, visited this Thursday Minister of Industry, Imad Hoballah, to discuss the prospects of forming a working group for media production, “to render Lebanon a center for industry-specialized media, through agreements to be made with the participation of the private sector,” as stated by Abdel ... Read More »
China gives the go-ahead for human trials of BioNTech’s coronavirus vaccine candidate
China has approved an early-stage trial in humans of German firm BioNTech’s experimental coronavirus vaccine, its local partner Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical said on Thursday. The potential vaccine is one of the two most advanced candidates that BioNTech is working on with its partner Pfizer and they received “fast track” status this week from the U.S. Food and Drug ... Read More »