Corona’s second wave runs through the state … is the solution locked in?

In Asharq Al-Awsat, Caroline Akoum wrote in Asharq Al-Awsat, Lebanon is in a state of confusion and confusion on the eve of the outbreak of the second wave of the Corona epidemic, and an unprecedented increase in positive cases, in a time when the Ministerial Committee dealing with the Corona dossier has not yet dared to make a decision to shut down completely. A large part of the stakeholders are also demanding, amid the rejection of the economic authorities to the closure decision, given that it is under the weight of the worsening crisis.

While both the Health Minister and the Interior Minister in the interim government, Hamad Hassan and Muhammad Fahmy, explicitly declared their support for the general shutdown, the Ministerial Committee did not make this decision at its last meeting, the day before yesterday, when a decision was made. which forces private hospitals in all private Lebanese lands to raise their disposition and allocate equipment and beds to receive “Corona” patients, satisfied with the partial closure decision in dozens of regions, noting that Hassan openly stated that ” the tipping point is dangerous and our ship is on the catastrophic stage. “

The “Crown” dossier in Lebanon is handled by two main bodies: the Committee to Follow Up on Measures to Confront the “Crown”, chaired by Major-General Mahmoud Al-Asmar, and the Ministerial Committee, which receives the First Committee’s recommendations for appropriate decisions in this regard, while the Parliamentary Health Committee, headed by Representative Assem Araji, oversees this work. He also developed his observations and communicated them to the two committees.

Araji points out to Asharq Al-Awsat that the Minister of Health suggested during the committee meeting the day before yesterday (Monday) that the country be closed for four weeks, but the decision was not made due to the division of opinions within the committee, while the Health Committee proposal was for 14 days to close. Araji pointed out that this government seems to be trying to delay the decision of the general shutdown as much as possible to avoid its repercussions, especially in the face of the total rejection of the economic sectors, and in this way throw its responsibility on the next government.

Araji believes that the confusion and confusion of the government to face the epidemic of the “Crown” is the main reason for the lack of commitment to the decisions taken, which are the responsibility of a large number of ministries, mainly the Ministry of the Interior and the Ministry of Justice, in addition of course the Ministry of Labor, Tourism, Industry and others. It recalls the decisions that were made under penalty of a fine, and none of which were implemented, to prevent meetings, put on masks, partial closures and others, without excluding from liability some of the Lebanese citizens, who in turn treat lightly the decisions and also the epidemic.

From here, and with his warning of the second wave of the “Corona” epidemic in the next two months, saying: “We will be facing a very difficult reality, and we must work to face the worst,” he believes that taking the decision of 14 days of confinement would be an opportunity in this context. “The beginning of this stage would bring relief to hospitals and the medical sector, which registered many injuries with (Corona), to return and start again to face the next stage, especially with the record of shortage of medical personnel as a consequence of the migration of hundreds of doctors and nurses ”.