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Lebanon will extend its lockdown for a further two weeks as it battles to keep its health system from collapsing in the face of record coronavirus deaths.
The lockdown, which includes a general 24-hour curfew, and the closure
of all shops other than for deliveries, was introduced last Thursday for an initial
11-day period. It will now last until February 8.
Though Beirut’s Rafik Hariri International airport remains open, it has reduced flights by
The country has repeatedly registered record coronavirus deaths in the past two weeks. On Wednesday, 64 people died of the virus, while
4,332 cases were registered.
Firass Abiad, director of the Rafik Hariri University Hospital, the largest public hospital in Beirut, took to Twitter to warn that not extending the lockdown could result in calamity.