As the Lebanese government battles the COVID-19 pandemic, a dangerous epidemic of misinformation has been circulating through different communication channels and in communities since the beginning of the outbreak preventing people to heed official health warnings. To counter the growing scourge of fake news, the Ministry of Information is taking ... Read More »
Parliament Tuesday approved a draft law that legalizes cannabis cultivation in Lebanon for medical and industrial use, as the country’s hard-hit economy teeters on the brink of collapse. The new legislation aims to regulate cultivation by Lebanese cannabis farmers, whose activities are illegal according to existing Lebanese law. The law ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that 5 new Coronavirus cases were registered today in Lebanon. This as the total number of cases in Lebanon reached 682 cases so far. LBCI Read More »
Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Tuesday issued a memo asking banks to allow depositors with foreign currency accounts exceeding $5,000 in value to withdraw their savings in Lebanese pounds at the “market rate,” likely to signify 2,600 pounds to the dollar. He had issued a similar memo in recent ... Read More »
Lebanon’s parliament sat Tuesday in a conference hall in Beirut to allow for social distancing between lawmakers amid the coronavirus pandemic, while outside anti-government protesters demonstrated in a car convoy. As the country struggles with a battered economy, MPs approved a $120 million loan from the World Bank to help ... Read More »
Prime Minister Hassan Diab chaired on Tuesday the meeting of the Ministerial Committee tasked with fighting corruption at the Grand Serail. Discussions tackled the draft laws related to the mechanism of recovery of stolen funds. They also highlighted the importance of requesting the Public Prosecutor at the Court of Cassation ... Read More »
For the second day in a row, teams dispatched by the Ministry of Health continued on Tuesday conducting random PCR tests across Lebanon to detect Coronavirus cases. Read More »
The Ministry of Health said on Tuesday that no new Coronavirus cases were registered today in Lebanon. This as 677 Coronavirus cases were recorded so far in Lebanon. LBCI Read More »
Minister of Public Health, Hamad Hassan, held a meeting in his office today with the representative of the World Health Organization in Lebanon, Iman al-Shankiti, which was also attended by the Ministry’s Director General, Walid Ammar, where talks centered on the coordination between the Health Ministry and the WHO, and ... Read More »
Rafic Hariri University Hospital announced on Monday, in its daily report on the latest developments of emerging Corona virus that 95 laboratory tests were performed and the results all came out negative. The report indicated that the total number of laboratory-confirmed infected cases with the Coronavirus that are currently present ... Read More »
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