Leaders are warned that if division prevails, pandemic will be more destructive than Brexit, migration and bailout crises The European Union has weathered the storms of eurozone bailouts, the migration crisis and Brexit, but some fear coronavirus could be even more destructive. In a rare intervention Jacques Delors, the former ... Read More »
World Health Organization officials said early research shows that some drugs “may have an impact” on fighting the coronavirus, but the data are extremely preliminary and more research needs to be done to determine whether the treatments can reliably fight COVID-19. There is “some preliminary data from non-randomized studies, observational ... Read More »
Key developments in the global coronavirus outbreak today include: Global deaths pass 40,000 Data collected by Johns Hopkins University researchers show at least 40,636 people have died across the world, while 174,019 people have recovered after becoming infected. The institution says that at least 823,479 people have been infected. Both ... Read More »
Cabinet held on Tuesday a meeting at the Grand Serail, chaired by Prime Minister Hassan Diab, who underlined that the government has largely succeeded, so far, in containing the Coronavirus pandemic. The effort made by His Excellency the Minister of Health and the Government as a whole has yielded good ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, announced after the cabinet session this Tuesday that “it has been agreed to provide financial assistance amounting at LBP 400 thousand to the families most in need, to be distributed by the Lebanese Army.” She emphasized that “the proposal of the ministerial committee on ... Read More »
The Ministry of Public Health announced that the total of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Lebanon rose to 463 on March 31st. It confirmed the new cases in its daily coronavirus report released on the same date. The report said: “Until 31/03/2020, the total of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases at Rafik Hariri ... Read More »
In its daily coronavirus (COVID-19) report, the Ministry of Public Health announced the new total of coronavirus-related deaths to be 12 on March 31st. The Health Ministry’s latest report said that 1 coronavirus patient has passed away in the past 24 hours. According to the ministry, the patient’s condition was ... Read More »
The death toll from an outbreak of coronavirus in Italy has risen by 812 in the last 24 hours, the Civil Protection Agency said on Monday, reversing two days of declines. Italy, the world’s hardest hit country which accounts for more than a third of all global fatalities, saw its ... Read More »
Speaker of the House, Nabih Berri, on Monday discussed with a number of cabinet members the country’s general developments, especially the conditions of Lebanon’s health sector in its fight against the novel Coronavirus. In this vein, Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, briefed Berri on the Ministry of Public Health’s efforts ... Read More »
The Ministry of Public Health, in its daily coronavirus (COVID-19) report, announced the new total of deaths related to the disease to be 11 on March 30th. The Health Ministry’s report said that 1 coronavirus patient has passed away in the past 24 hours. According to the ministry, the patient ... Read More »
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