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Covering Lebanon and occasionally MENA's conflicts. And currently, the war in Palestine.
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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 $.
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🇱🇧 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.
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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.
-- A leading doctor in Lebanon’s coronavirus response effort asks whether MPs and ministers are willing to donate a month’s salary to the health ministry to help fight the virus.
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-- Beirut Municipal police are clearing people from Beirut’s corniche ahead of a formal announcement of a state of emergency over the coronavirus.

Lebanese will keep acting irrationally until they start dying on the roads like Iran, Italy, and China.
-- Higher Defense Council ends meeting at Baabda Palace and its Secretary General will announce the decisions shortly.
-- Association of Banks: In line with the Cabinet’s decision to declare a state of emergency in the country, we announce that the banks will temporarily close until March 29, 2020.

And how can people get money?