The Ministry of Public Health, on Thursday, announced the results of PCR tests that were conducted on March 21, March 22, and March 23 at Beirut airport. According to the Ministry, 59 passengers have tested positive for coronavirus aboard the flights coming from Frankfurt, Adana, Basra, Cairo, London, Paris, Najaf, Damascus, Istanbul, Sharjah, Dubai, Milano,...
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Health Minister: Closure indicators are promising, country not to be opened all at once
Caretaker Public Health Minister, Hamad Hassan, deemed the current total lockdown in the country as “the second successful closure after the first lockdown last March.” “Indicators are promising in light of the decline of the proliferative index to 0.93%, which will be reflected in about two weeks on the positive rate of the tests that...
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Ministers of Health, Information launch national registration platform for coronavirus vaccination
Caretaker Minister of Public Health Hamad Hassan, and Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad, launched this Thursday the national platform for registration for the coronavirus vaccine, in a press conference held at the Ministry of Public Health. Hassan affirmed that the goal is to “deliver real information to the citizens, and we pray that they will...
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Covid-19 vaccination platform to be launched tomorrow, Health Minister avows transparency, equality
Caretaker Minister of Public Health, Dr. Hamad Hassan, on Monday held an extensive meeting with concerned parties in preparation for the Covid-19 vaccination process. The meeting has confirmed that the official registration platform for the Coronavirus vaccine will be launched tomorrow (Tuesday) and that all the other platforms that have been promoted so far were...
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Health Ministry: Portable ventilators placed at Beirut’s Sports City do not serve patients with severe conditions
Public Health Ministry Press Office issued a clarifying statement this evening, in wake of the circulated news regarding the donated ventilators currently placed at Beirut’s Sports City, whereby it indicated that these devices are portable ventilators that are used when transporting patients from one place to another for a limited period of time not exceeding...
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Judicial decree obliges Lebanese State to hand over two ventilators to Corona patients from the donation kept at Beirut’s Sports City
Judge of Urgent Matters in Nabatiyeh, Ahmad Mezher, issued an expedited decree on Saturday, obliging the Lebanese State’s Ministry of Public Health to hand over two ventilators to two patients in dire medical need, from the donation of ventilators currently kept at the Beirut’s Sports City, under penalty of a compulsory fine of 20 million Lebanese pounds for each day of delay. This decree...
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Heath Ministry: 5872 new Corona cases, 41 deaths
The Public Health Ministry announced, on Saturday, that 5872 new Coronavirus cases have been reported, thus bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases to-date to 249,158. It also indicated that 41 deaths have also been reported during the past 24 hours.