-- Jumblatt to MTV: I will donate $500,000 to Hariri Hospital and $100,000 to the Lebanese Red Cross.
-- Security Forces: 478 tickets were issued today for violations of the general mobilization decision.
-- A shop owner in Tripoli (kept working at the shop), who was being tested for coronavirus, did not adhere to the order of self quarantine. He tested positive today leading to unrest and and call for urgent emergency procedures in the city.
🇱🇧 -- The next 7 days will be critical for Lebanon's COVID-19 crisis. We're right in between an exponential and a linear growth trajectory. Stricter measures should be done soon.
Note: Most of the new cases are related to a wedding in France that hosted 8-9 Lebanese politicians and few TV reporters in MTV and TL.
Note: Most of the new cases are related to a wedding in France that hosted 8-9 Lebanese politicians and few TV reporters in MTV and TL.
🇱🇧-- Lebanon: Lebanese army intelligence officers setup random checkpoints to enforce the use of protective face masks and gloves and closed down non-food related shops in Beirut areas. @nauala
-- AUBMC will no longer receive coronavirus patients, despite having a floor equipped for these cases.
Why? Because it's reserved for the VIP patients.
Why? Because it's reserved for the VIP patients.
-- Amazing job is being made by local communities in Beirut, Beqaa, and south Lebanon to distribute food and necessities to those in need. Until now it has reached 1200 family.
🇱🇧 -- About 100 (out of 333) patients with coronavirus are being hospitalized right now, while the rest were asked to self-quarantine at home. @nauala
🇬🇧-- British Ambassador to 🇱🇧Lebanon, Chris Rampling, tweeted Wednesday on the emerging Corona epidemic, saying: "The challenges posed by the coronavirus are unprecedented in our recent history. The UK has provided Lebanon, in its response to the spread of Corona, equipment and materials worth 340,000 Sterling pounds through the World Health Organization in Lebanon."
-- The Press Office of Lebanese Forces Party Head, Samir Geagea, announced in a statement on Wednesday, that "Geagea contacted this morning Interior and Municipalities Minister, Brigadier General Mohamad Fahmi, with whom he discussed the assassination of Antoine Al-Hayek last Sunday, whereby Fahmy assured Geagea that he has accorded this crime the utmost attention and follow-up from the start, in order to unveil its circumstances."
In turn, Geagea appealed to the Interior Minister to personally follow-up on this issue due to its sensitivity and its impact on coexistence between the Lebanese in general, and in the South in particular.
Note: Hayek is a known deputy of the infamous chief of the infamous torturing prison of Al Khiyam.
In turn, Geagea appealed to the Interior Minister to personally follow-up on this issue due to its sensitivity and its impact on coexistence between the Lebanese in general, and in the South in particular.
Note: Hayek is a known deputy of the infamous chief of the infamous torturing prison of Al Khiyam.
-- A sixth coronavirus death has been recorded in Lebanon; the patient in Rafik Hariri Hospital was 46 years old with underlying health issues.