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38- Nasrallah: Hezbollah has placed all of its capabilities at the disposal of the government and the Health Ministry. All our doctors, nurses, and medical equipment is in the hands of the government when it needs it.

39- Nasrallah: In time, the government will announce national emergency if it needs it.

40- Nasrallah: Nasrallah making the case for people losing their sources of income due to the quarantine: “countless people will lose their wages, creating a welfare and social security crisis. The government should take this into consideration. Social security should be protected.

41- Nasrallah calls on Lebanese banks to extend a helping hand to the government. "You have made large profits since 1993, now is the time to act responsibly."

42- Nasrallah: This battle [against Coronavirus] needs patience and stamina...The most dangerous thing in any battle is panic and fear.

43- Nasrallah: If death comes, then we must accept our fate and the will of God Almighty.
44- Nasrallah: We have to be strong in the face of this threat, even if the truth is hard. The strong are those who will remain and who will be victorious.

Note: The part of the speech that is related to Coronavirius ended.
45- Nasrallah: Hezbollah has not placed an economic plan or forced one on the government. This is the government's job, we only assisted.

46- Nasrallah: Regarding international monetary organizations - i.e. the IMF - we have no objection to the government seeking the advice of any international body.

47- Nasrallah: Any foreign or international entity that wishes to provide any unconditioned aid or loan to Lebanon, we have no objection.

48- Nasrallah: For example if we are offered billions in return for permanently settling Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, no-one can agree to that.

49- Nasrallah: We in Hezbollah are against any condition that would raise the VAT to 15% or 20%.
50- Nasrallah: One sentence regarding regional issues -- we must condemn the American aggression that occurred last night, against Iraqi army, police, and PMF positions. U.S. acton yesterday was a violation of Iraqi sovereignty.

51- Nasrallah: U.S. occupation forces committed a crime yesterday, and will be met with appropriate responses from the Iraqis - Iraqi gov't, parliament, agencies, and people, who refuse to live under the tyranny of these devils.

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-- Beirut today after most people are self quarantining at home.
-- Secretary-General of the Lebanese Red Cross, Georges Kettaneh, to MTV: We are coordinating with the Ministry of Health and the Rafik Hariri Hospital to issue daily reports on coronavirus, and we have equipped teams that take the necessary measures for transporting patients.
-- Dahyeh area after people started to self quarantine and close all shops.
-- ISF distributing brochures with information about Coronavirius to the people.
-- Lebanese Army has arrested a number of currency exchange dealers as part of a crackdown on those not conforming to a permitted range between LL1500-LL2000 to the $.
Forwarded from COVID-19 Up
🇱🇧 Lebanon just announced 17 new cases of COVID-19, raising today's total to 32 and the national number to 110 cases. I will make a breakdown for these cases in detail and how only 27 cases have infected 70+ residents. @COVID19Up
-- The city of Zahle.
Forwarded from COVID-19 Up
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🇱🇧 Regarding the COVID-19 cases in Lebanon there is currently 97 cases. Out of these 97 cases, only 27 were infected outside Lebanon in countries like Iran, Italy, UK, France and others. Therefore the infection rate in Lebanon is theoretically: One can infect 2.5.

Going deeper into the 27 infected cases they are distributed as:
🇮🇷1- Iran (12)
🇬🇧2- UK (4)
3- Untraced (3)
🇳🇱4- Netherlands (2)
5- 🇪🇬Egypt, 🇫🇷France, 🇨🇾Cyprus, 🇦🇹Austria, and 🇨🇭Switzerland (1)

Now regarding how local infections happened:
🇮🇹1- The single Italian case infected 34
🇪🇬2- The single case from Egypt infected 17
🇬🇧3- The single case from the UK infected 7
🇮🇷4- The twelve cases from Iran infected 5

Note: The video was made an hour before the final count. 17 new cases were then announced with all being connected to the 🇮🇹 Italian, 🇪🇬Egyptian, and 🇬🇧 British cases.