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Diab chairs meeting of Coronavirus Follow-up Committee

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21-12-2020 | 14:18

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Caretaker Prime Minister Hassan Diab chaired on Monday at the Grand Serail a meeting of the Coronavirus Follow-up Committee in the presence of Ministers Zeina Akar, Raoul Nehme, Mohammad Fahmi, Imad Hoballah, Michel Najjar, Hamad Hassan, Tarek Majzoub and Charbel Wehbe, in addition to PCM Secretary General, Judge Mahmoud Makie, the Secretary General of the Supreme Defense Council, Major General Mahmoud Al-Asmar, and PM’s Advisors, Khodor Taleb and Petra Khoury.

The committee deliberated on coronavirus-related developments in light of the emergence of the new strain of the virus in Britain.

A number of measures have been taken to limit the transmission of the virus to Lebanon, most notably: “Conducting a PCR test for all passengers arriving from the United Kingdom to Lebanon upon their arrival at Beirut International Airport, with the obligation to undergo a second PCR test 72 hours after entering the Lebanese territories in one of the accredited laboratories.

The Ministry of Health will provide the Ministry of the Interior with all information related to the addresses of arriving passengers so that the Interior Ministry can trace them, provided that positive cases are quarantined, upon issuance of results, in quarantine centers until an examination is carried out so as to determine the virus strain. MEA will cover the costs of the two aforementioned PCR tests, without the traveler incurring any additional costs”.

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