In an issued statement on Sunday, the Ministry of Public Health alerted the citizens towards the strict need to adhere to domestic quarantine for those who were required to do so by the medical teams of the Ministry, especially those coming from abroad and those who were in contact with ...

Monetary fund warns the US and China against continuing trade war, saying it could damage coronavirus recovery The head of the International Monetary Fund has signalled a possible downward revision of global economic forecasts, and warned the United States and China against rekindling a trade war that could weaken a ...

The Ministry of Health issued on Saturday its daily report, announcing that 13 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The report said that out of the 13 new cases, only 2 were registered among the Lebanese returnees. The ministry said that the total number of cases in Lebanon climbed ...

In its daily report on the latest developments of the novel Coronavirus, the Rafic Hariri University Hospital announced on Saturday that out of 230 laboratory tests conducted today, three new Covid-19 cases have been recorded, while the remaining tests came out negative. It added that the total number of laboratory-confirmed ...

Google and Facebook have told employees to prepare to work from home through the end of the year, according to recent reports. Facebook plans to open their offices by July 6 but will give employees the option to continue working from home at least until 2021, CNBC first reported, while ...

As TV networks start to run out of content to air and big advertiser draws like live sports are tabled, those companies are warning about severe advertising declines ahead. In recent days, companies including ABC and ESPN parent Disney, Fox Corp., AMC Networks, NBCUniversal parent Comcast, ViacomCBS and Discovery reported earnings that showed ...

‘Challenge’ studies would deliberately give coronavirus to healthy volunteers Controversial trials in which volunteers are intentionally infected with Covid-19 could accelerate vaccine development, according to the World Health Organization, which has released new guidance on how the approach could be ethically justified despite the potential dangers for participants. So-called challenge ...

The Covid-19 pandemic could “smoulder” in Africa for several years after killing as many as 190,000 people in the coming 12 months, the World Health Organization has said. The WHO warned last month that there could be 10m infections on the continent within six months, though experts said the pandemic’s ...

The Ministry of Health issued on Friday its daily report, saying that 12 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The ministry added that out of the 12 new cases, 7 were recorded among the residents and 6 among the returnees. The report also noted that one death was registered ...

Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, said Friday that the government’s freshly-approved economic plan was neither sacred nor conclusive, adding that it can be adjusted if need be. “We can make changes when necessary, as per certain procedures,” Abdel Samad told Télé Liban channel. As to the state-run television’s appointments, ...