Lebanon’s finance minister urged prosecutors to take action against the country’s banks after they defied a government order to maintain “necessary functions” by announcing that they would close until March 29, citing coronavirus. Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni called on prosecutors to “act quickly in light of the Association of ... Read More »
Professor Youssef Fares was just elected a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, based in Austria, to become the first Lebanese doctor to join the academy. He was chosen in recognition of his contributions to the advancement of neurosciences and the development of health care institutions, as ... Read More »
The Ministry of Public Health just released its daily COVID-19 report. It confirmed 11 new cases in the past 24 hours and announced the new total to be 120 coronavirus infections in Lebanon. On Tuesday, the ministry stated: “From February 21st until March 17th, 2020, the total of laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 ... Read More »
The Federal Reserve committed hundreds of billions of dollars to steadying the financial markets. The S&P 500 plummeted nearly 12 percent anyway. Financial markets imploded again on Monday, as increasingly alarmed investors feared that the global economy could experience a downturn rivaling the cataclysmic recession after the financial crisis a ... Read More »
The first human trial of a vaccine to protect against pandemic coronavirus has started in the US. Four patients received the jab at the Kaiser Permanente research facility in Seattle, Washington, reports the Associated Press news agency. The vaccine cannot cause Covid-19 but contains a harmless genetic code copied from ... Read More »
All trips between non-European countries and the EU and the Schengen zone suspended for 30 days, Macron confirms The EU is banning the “non-essential” entry of all foreign nationals, in the most dramatic crackdown yet to try to curb the continent’s coronavirus pandemic. Only residents, family members and essential staff ... Read More »
American officials downplay and deny accusations, while European ministers rage: ‘Germany is not for sale’ The owner of a German drug manufacturer has delivered an apparent rebuke to Donald Trump after the White House was accused of trying to procure a coronavirus vaccine it is developing – but “only for ... Read More »
Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni on Monday expressed his rejection of a decision by the Association of Banks in Lebanon to close banks until March 29 over the coronavirus crisis, urging the public prosecution to take “swift action.” Accusing ABL of breaching the government’s instructions on keeping banks open despite the ... Read More »
LBCI sources reported that two patients infected with coronavirus (COVID-19) have just fully recovered in Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut. The two recovered coronavirus patients in Lebanon would now be added to the first recovered patient five days ago, making a total of 3 recovered cases, and 3 (COVID-19) ... Read More »
Lebanon went into lockdown Monday after the government announced a two-week state of “general mobilization” and ordered the closure of public and private institutions as well as the country’s airport and land and sea ports of entry. Traffic was thin across the country and in some cases streets were completely ... Read More »
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