The coronavirus pandemic is accelerating, with Thursday’s 150,000 new cases the highest in a single day and nearly half of those in the Americas, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. “The world is in a new and dangerous phase,” Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual briefing from WHO ... Read More »
A delegation of the United Nations in Lebanon visited Friday Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad, at her ministry office, to follow up on an array of joint projects, especially the plan aiming to combat misleading and fake news. The delegation comprised UNICEF’s Lebanon Representative Yukie Mokuo, WHO Representative to ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Friday that 15 new Coronavirus cases were registered during the past 24 hours in Lebanon. The new cases were divided as follows: 10 among the residents and 5 among the returnees. This brings the total number of cases in the country to 1510. LBCI Read More »
Coronavirus antibodies may last only two to three months after a person becomes infected with Covid-19, according to a new study published Thursday in Nature Medicine. Researchers examined 37 asymptomatic people, those who never developed symptoms, in the Wanzhou District of China. They compared their antibody response to that of 37 people with ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 6 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The ministry added that the total number of cases in Lebanon reached 1495. The cases were divided as follows: 5 among the residents and 1 among the returnees. No death among the Coronavirus patients ... Read More »
Minister of Information, Manal Abdel Samad Najd, on Thursday said in the wake of the cabinet session, which was held at the Grand Serail under the chairmanship of Prime Minister, Hassan Diab, that the PM was pinning hopes on the participation of all the political forces in Baabda meeting for ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Wednesday that 16 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon. The ministry added that the total number of cases in Lebanon reached 1489. The cases were divided as follows: 3 among the residents and 13 among the returnees. No death among the Coronavirus patients ... Read More »
Experts call for legislation and trade deals worldwide to encourage green recovery Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature, according to leaders at the UN, WHO and WWF International, and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades. The illegal and unsustainable ... Read More »
Scientists have developed a human embryo “blueprint” using human stem cells, in a breakthrough that could provide vital insight into the early stages of infant development, new research showed Thursday. Teams from the University of Cambridge and the Netherlands-based Hubrecht Institute said their model will allow them to observe never-before-seen ... Read More »
The Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday that 9 new Coronavirus cases were registered in Lebanon, bringing the total number of cases to 1473. LBCI Read More »
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