days, 17 hours and 25 minutes, setting a record for the trail
. It wasn’t until the two men were well into their journey that Vaughan fully divulged his backstory to Bachar.
“People who were in Patrick’s place, living with heroin addiction, it is often not a happy ending at all,” says Khattar. “Knowing that he was able to make it by himself, and get over it and move forward, and take care of himself better than ever now, it says
a lot. I knew then I had what I needed to make a documentary.”
Vaughan agrees
. “I thought, if this is going to help inspire one person to find their way out of addiction, then we should do it,” he says
Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International Airport will remain open, with traffic limited to 20 per cent of capacity at most.
Passengers travelling from Baghdad, Istanbul, Adana, Cairo and Addis Ababa must quarantine at a hotel for seven days.
About 85 per cent of incoming coronavirus cases arrived from these cities, the government said.
Private businesses will be closed with a few exceptions, including pharmacies and bakeries.
People will be forbidden from leaving their properties from 5am on January 14 until January 25.
Measures introduced last week to close religious institutions, schools and universities, and a ban on all social gatherings was reimposed.
At a coronavirus inter-ministerial committee meeting, interim Prime Minister Hassan Diab criticised citizens’ attitude to the virus, saying they had not taken the dangers seriously.