Posted By
Najib
Oct 01, 2020 03:53
Lebanon launched a new portal to map the daily number of COVID-19 cases across the country. The portal, which includes a color-coded map indicating the risk level per area, is a joint work between the National Council for Scientific Research, the Interior Ministry & the Health Ministry. There are four risk levels identified: 1- Very low: Less than 5 total cases. 2- Low: Less than 4 cases per 100k residents. 3- Moderate: 4 to 8…
Posted By
Najib
Sep 21, 2020 04:58
A friend of mine was traveling to Beirut two days ago, when he was asked to fill out an online survey as required by the Health Ministry. When he went in to check out the URL, he was surprised to find out that a lot of fields contained sensitive information, such as Passport number, and that the page was not an official .gov page but an actual survey hosted on arcgis.com. There's not even a…
Critiques
5 years ago
The government has failed, the Health & Interior Ministries have failed miserably, the media failed and the people have failed too in respecting the COVID-19 guidelines. However, now is not the time to play the ...
Health
5 years ago
A report on the top 100 safest countries for COVID-19 was issued by the Deep Knowledge Group, a consortium of companies and nonprofits owned by Deep Knowledge Ventures, an investment firm founded in 2014 in ...
Food
5 years ago
Solidarity is the only way forward to overcome COVID-19 and we’ve seen tons of awesome initiatives in Lebanon by various businesses, NGOs and even on an individual level. Health front-liners, from nursing, doctors, administrative teams, ...
Critiques
5 years ago
Lebanon’s Prime Minister has announced today that the government will proceed to “partially re-open” the country as of Monday, while Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi issued a memo detailing the rules to be followed as the ...
Baladi
5 years ago
To thank them for their service and for the sacrifices and efforts they are making round the clock, leading Lebanese coffee maker Café Najjar is offering free Raqwa Machines and capsules to the entire medical, ...
Baladi
5 years ago
LAU launched a week ago The Mobile Clinic and has been touring Lebanon offering free PCR tests for patients who cannot afford it or are not covered by the NSSF or any other medical insurance. ...
Health
5 years ago
Health Minister Hamad Hassan appeared in a video yesterday re-assuring Lebanese that we’re close to achieving our goal, which I assume means containing the pandemic and flattening the #COVID19 curve, but did not provide further ...
Health
5 years ago
Should healthy people wear masks to prevent Coronavirus? Should everyone wear masks? Is a Homemade Mask effective? Which material should we use? Are cloth face coverings recommended? How about cheap paper masks? Bandanas? The truth ...
