Business chiefs expect lengthy period before recovery as CDC chief warns of worse to come during US winter The prospect of a prolonged worldwide impact from the coronavirus pandemic has hardened after business leaders warned of a drawn-out recession and US health chiefs highlighted the prospect of a second wave ...

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

Joseph Stiglitz attacks Donald Trump, saying US on course for second Great Depression   Donald Trump’s botched handling of the Covid-19 crisis has left the US looking like a “third world” country and on course for a second Great Depression, one of the world’s leading economists has warned. In a ...

– 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 ...

House Speaker, Nabih Berri, on Tuesday stressed in his entry during the legislative session held at the UNESCO Palace that the Parliament is carrying out its role and is more active at the legislative and supervisory levels regardless of all claims. “The Parliament is performing its duties and more… Everyone ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

While most countries are working on ways to contain the coronavirus, New Zealand has set itself a much more ambitious goal: eliminating it altogether. Experts believe the country could pull it off. The virus “doesn’t have superpowers,” said Helen Petousis-Harris, a vaccine expert at the University of Auckland. “Once transmission ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned “the worst is yet ahead of us” in the coronavirus outbreak, with the vast majority of the public thought to remain at risk from the disease even in countries that are lifting lockdown measures. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the organisation’s director-general, said early data indicated ...