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It says in “Al-Akhbar”:
A full shutdown is expected to be decided tomorrow, with the number of coronavirus infections in Lebanon exceeding those in China (more than 94,000 in Lebanon compared to some 86,000 in China since the outbreak of the epidemic).
The Ministry of Education anticipated the decision to announce the closure of schools today and tomorrow, pending the decisions of the Supreme Council that will be held tomorrow in the Baabda Palace to discuss the option of comprehensive closure that represents a requirement for the workers of the health sector, and behind them the Ministry of Health, so that the health sector can catch its breath by stopping the count of wounded they numbered. Currently, some 47,000 people, 797 of whom reside in hospitals, highlight that the Ministry of Health announced yesterday that 1,139 new injuries (nine of them from expatriates) from 8,481 laboratory tests were registered. It also announced the death of ten people, bringing the number of victims of the virus to 723.
It is true that the closure decision in light of the current economic crisis is considered “audacious” in the words of Health Minister Hamad Hassan, but the lesson remains in the final stages, that is, in the measures that will accompany the decision of close and ensure its implementation. As the “audacity” lies in its implementation and striving not to make it a formality, as the previous partial closure decisions, which registered a great break with the implicit complicity of concerned authorities with people who do not have the luxury of refraining from practicing their work for the sake of prevention.
And if the government’s recommendations will be formulated tomorrow in a tone of decision and severity for reckless groups that have the ability to adhere to the fundamentals of virus prevention, they are required by those groups that have committed to the procedures and currently cannot. abide by the closure decision due to the exacerbation of the financial and monetary crisis, to provide alternatives that allow them to comply.
And if these alternatives are in the manner of the aid project that was proposed at the beginning of the epidemic, the days of the first closures, and which were not implemented, then the signs imply that the next closure will not be better. Does the authority that previously failed to develop a mandatory quarantine plan for expatriates and was unable to equip government and private hospitals in seven months to face the second wave, has an integrated economic plan that defines fair exceptions and guarantees residents that they will not go hungry? if they stay at home?
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