DUBAI: Lebanese Health Minister Hamad Hasan said the country will begin mass coronavirus testing next week, national newspaper The Daily Star reported on Saturday.
The ministry plans carry out approximately 1,500 tests per day and incorporate random testing to gather more accurate data on COVID-19 in Lebanon, Hasan added.
“The results today are good and we are proceeding according to the plan and taking great care so that there is no excessive optimism,” Hasan said in a press conference.
On Friday, Lebanese Prime Minister Hassan Diab has allocated $797 million to cover the costs of COVID-19, which has forced industries across the globe to shut down.
He said the fund would “help daily workers in the public sector, support the health sector and farmers, and give small industrial enterprises subsidized loans to stimulate the national industry.”
Diab added the epidemic has worsened the country’s decades-old economic, financial and social crises, and has made “the situation more difficult and critical.”
Leban has confirmed 672 coronavirus infections, 21 deaths and 99 recoveries.
Lebanon to start mass coronavirus testing
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Lebanon to start mass coronavirus testing
- The ministry plans carry out approximately 1,500 tests per day
- Leban has confirmed 672 coronavirus infections, 21 deaths and 99 recoveries
Syrian authorities find remains of five victims of Assad regime
- The remains of the individuals were scattered on open ground near a house in the village of Al-Qashla, near Manbij
LONDON: Syrian authorities completed the recovery of the remains of at least five individuals in eastern Aleppo province, believed to have died due to the brutal practices of the deposed Bashar Assad regime.
The Syrian Civil Defense found the remains of individuals scattered on open ground near a house in the village of Al-Qashla, near Manbij, according to the Syrian Arab News Agency.
They have been surveying and investigating the area since Monday, when the first report of human remains came through, in coordination with the National Authority for the Missing.
Authorities have found multiple mass graves in Syria since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.
Last week, authorities reported that the remains of 14 individuals were found in the Adra industrial area, northeast of Damascus, during excavation for mill foundations in the area.
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, nearly 177,000 people have been forcibly disappeared in Syria since March 2011.
