🇱🇧-- 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.
-- Highly active Israeli UAV activity along the Syrian / Lebanese border today and the last few days.
An Israeli strike on Syria is expected today.
An Israeli strike on Syria is expected today.
-- Hezbollah offered one of his private hospitals in Lebanon (St. George hospital) to support the Lebanese Ministry of Health to face the coronavirus. It will be ready in a couple of days.
It will be dedicated fully for that.
It will be dedicated fully for that.
-- An Israeli IDF IAF drone has been circulating over Beirut for the past hour and a half.
🇱🇧-- Breaking: Lebanon extends partial lockdown until April 12.
-- Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni requests all public institutions to close until further notice. @nauala
-- Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni requests all public institutions to close until further notice. @nauala
-- Lebanon Cabinet has approved LL75 billion in aid for families in need amid economic collapse & #coronavirus.
The figure equates to $37.5 million at an exchange rate of LL2000 to the $, or $50 million at the official (but pretty much obsolete) LL1500 rate.
The figure equates to $37.5 million at an exchange rate of LL2000 to the $, or $50 million at the official (but pretty much obsolete) LL1500 rate.
-- Bsharri municipality calls on residents to quarantine 15 days at home after a doctor in the region's governmental hospital contracts coronavirus.