A preparatory meeting was held this Tuesday at the Ministry of Information, between caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, Health Minister Hamad Hassan, and head of the National Committee for Vaccination, Abdel-Rahman Al-Bizri. The meeting discussed the content of the draft media plan prepared by the Ministry of ... Read More »
Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appeared to lose only a small bit of effectiveness against an engineered virus with three key mutations from the new coronavirus variant found in South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the U.S. drugmaker. The study by Pfizer and scientists from the ... Read More »
The first technical electronic seminar introducing the Right to Information Law was held between this Thursday by the Ministries of Information and Administrative Development, and the United Nations Development Program, with the participation of caretaker ministers Manal Abdel-Samad and Demianous Qattar. “This seminar is a prelude to others,” said ... Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, stressed during her meeting with a delegation from the Media Graduates League the necessity of securing job opportunities for university graduates, pointing to the need to assist students in choosing their majors based on the market needs in Lebanon. Receiving the work ... Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Monday held a meeting in her office at the Ministry with Press Syndicate Head, Aouni al-Kaaki, and Editors’ Syndicate Dean Joseph al-Kosseifi, in the presence of National Audiovisual Council Chairman Abdel Hadi Mahfouz. The meeting identified the segments of frontline ... Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Monday held a meeting in her office at the Ministry with Press Syndicate Head, Aouni al-Kaaki, and Editors’ Syndicate Dean Joseph al-Kosseifi, in the presence of National Audiovisual Council Chairman Abdel Hadi Mahfouz. The meeting identified the segments of frontline ... Read More »
The emergence of several, more infectious strains of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 has worried governments and scientists, who are investigating how and why the virus became more transmissible. Like all viruses, SARS-CoV-2 mutates in order to maximise its survival chances. When it replicates, tiny errors in its genetic coding are ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday that 3010 new Coronavirus cases were recorded during the past 24 hours with 50 new deaths. LBCI Read More »
A coordination meeting on Friday was held online between Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, and Caretaker Minister of Administrative Development, Demianos Kattar, with the participation of UNDP Resident Coordinator for Peacebuilding in Lebanon, Celine Moyroud. The meeting reportedly took stock of the right to information law and ... Read More »
Freezing RNA-based vaccines keeps their fragile components from breaking down Pfizer is racing to get approval for its COVID-19 vaccine, applying for emergency use authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on November 20. But the pharmaceutical giant faces a huge challenge in distributing its vaccine, which has to be ... Read More »
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