On December 18, a San Diego emergency room nurse was given a shot of the Covid-19 vaccine. A week later, he tested positive for the virus, CNN affiliate KGTV reported. Stories like this will become more common as millions of Americans are administered the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines over the coming ... Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Dr. Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Tuesday held a virtual meeting via Zoom app, with Public Policy Manager for the Levant at Facebook, Tara Fischbach. Discussions reportedly focused on the possibilities of cooperation between the Ministry of Information and Facebook in the media and awareness ... Read More »
The Public Health Ministry announced, on Saturday, that 5872 new Coronavirus cases have been reported, thus bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to-date to 249,158. It also indicated that 41 deaths have also been reported during the past 24 hours. Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, held Wednesday a virtual meeting with students from various Lebanese universities via Zoom app, titled “Journalism, Vision 2021,” upon the invitation of the Saint Joseph University’s students’ newspaper. “Lebanon is not doing well; it currently ranks first in terms of corruption, coronavirus, and ... Read More »
Caretaker Information Minister, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Tuesday held a meeting attended by Press Order Head, Aouni Kaaki, Press Editors’ Head, Joseph Kosseifi, and Head of the Audio-Visual Media Council, Abdel Hadi Mahfouz. The meeting discussed the exception given to journalists during the lockdown, allowing them to move about ... Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, on Tuesday sent a letter to Caretaker Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe hereby asking him to summon Egypt’s Ambassador Yasser Alawi, to object to the content issued by Egyptian e-newspaper Youm 7 on January 11 insulting the Lebanese people. NNA Read More »
Caretaker Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, on Tuesday highlighted the necessity to put aside political and spiteful diatribes, and to focus on the nation’s best interest amid the coronavirus pandemic. “This pandemic is not sparing anyone. We must keep away politics and vexatious rhetoric, and only dwell on ... Read More »
WHO stresses need for measures like physical distancing, hand washing and mask wearing to rein in the pandemic. Herd immunity will not be achieved this year despite COVID-19 vaccines being rolled out in a number of countries, the World Health Organization has warned. Last month, the United Kingdom became the ... Read More »
The Earth is moving faster than it ever has in the last 50 years, scientists have discovered, and could result in a ‘negative leap second’ being added to the year. The speed of the Earth’s rotation is affected by a number of factors, including the motion of its molten core, oceans, and ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Monday that 3095 new Coronavirus cases were registered in the country during the past 24 hours with 23 new deaths. LBCI Read More »
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