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Beirut – Omar Habanjar
The “coronian” shutdown assisted in Lebanon, so politics was absent and with it the formation of the government, the stagnant French initiative, and the Lebanese were busy following the news of the epidemic virus vaccine, and the total shutdown, which President Michel Aoun signed yesterday with exceptional approval, from tomorrow Thursday until the morning of February 1. He then also approved the proposal of the Minister of Health, Hamad Hassan, to sign a contract with the US company (Pfizer) to buy its vaccine against the Corona epidemic, provided that the exceptional approval is issued after the signature of the Prime Minister.
The full closure coinciding with a Christmas holiday for the Armenian community, although some suggest that it should be closed as of Friday, out of respect for the Armenian celebration of Christmas, but Hagop Pakradounian, head of the Armenian Parliament, called for the immediate closure, regardless of the occasion, because people’s lives are above all. .
This closure is the fourth since the outbreak of the epidemic in February 2020, and excludes doctors, nurses, the military, journalists, state departments, printers and banks, provided that the percentage of work is between 20 and 30%. As for judges and lawyers, the decision stipulates that they work remotely to decide release decisions.
A member of the Crown Committee, Dr. Abdel Rahman Al-Bizri, announced that there will be multiple sources of vaccines to provide the opportunity to vaccinate the largest number of Lebanese, indicating that the Pfizer vaccine alone is not enough, and then there is a severe cooling problem. We now have 18 refrigerators that are a few degrees below the required level. 6 refrigerators with full specifications were recommended.
Health Minister Hamad Hassan called the closure policy a sign of the government’s failure as it relaxes medical personnel and reduces the number of injuries, but has many social and economic repercussions.
Yesterday, the Corona meter registered 2,861 new infections, raising the figure to 192,139 since the outbreak of the epidemic, in addition to the 13 deaths yesterday.
Politically, and in accordance with Alanba’s expectations, the French embassy in Beirut announced the postponement of the visit of the French Senate delegation to Lebanon, which was scheduled to arrive at midnight tonight, due to conditions. health, and indefinitely.
The French embassy had reserved appointments for the six members of the delegation with the presidents of the republic, the council, the government and with some politicians and heads of Lebanese sects in the framework of a maneuver aimed at reactivating the initiative of French president Emmanuel Macron .
All other rights were absent, and the date of the return of President-designate Saad Hariri was not discussed, while communication sites attributed to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar channel said there was no government in Lebanon before Joe Biden took office. power in the White House, and they said that Paris is working to restore heat to the Communication lines between Baabda and Beit al-Wasat, and more than that. Follow-up sources spoke about the French call to President-designate Saad Hariri to communicate with the head of the Free Patriotic Movement, Gebran Bassil.
It is clear that Iran wants to enter the strong US President Biden in Lebanon, as in Syria and Iraq, and its focus with its allies in Lebanon in the next government, being the government of the last term of President Aoun and the opposition team, who will oversee the upcoming parliamentary elections, which will bring the House of Representatives to elect. In turn, the next president of the republic.
Major General Abbas Ibrahim, Director General of Public Security, said about the formation of a government: We have not exceeded the general deadline to form governments in Lebanon, and the problem is that they are working to form a government of specialists in a country where specialization is distinguished far from politics.
Regarding the French initiative, Major General Ibrahim confirmed to “Free Lebanon” radio, which speaks on behalf of the Lebanese Forces, that this initiative still exists with its main headlines and is likely to be the compass of the ministerial statement. and government action after government formation.
On the issue of the voluntary return of Syrian refugees, which is supervised by General Security, he said: It still continues, but the Corona pandemic has affected its continuity.
The security environment was altered yesterday, as a result of the burning of photos of Major General Qassem Soleimani in the Nahr al-Kalb area, where there is a rock with paintings that narrate the departure of the invaders from Lebanon, and the supporters of Hezbollah responded by burning images of the late President Bashir Gemayel in the southern suburbs.
The head of the Lebanese Forces Party, Samir Geagea, responded yesterday to the last speech of the Secretary General of “Hezbollah” Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who saw that in his last speech he had crossed all borders and ceilings, as if the Lebanese had no memory , history, presence or role.
Geagea noted that “Mr. Hassan said that your resistance protects Lebanon and preserves your rights. All we want from you is not to invade Lebanon and the Lebanese, since the sovereignty of Lebanon has never been violated as it is violated today, and The Lebanese people have never been humiliated as they were humiliated today, nor had they previously lost their Arab and Western friendships, as they lost today, noting that when French President Emmanuel Macron visited Beirut, for the second time in 2020, he did not visit Iranian missiles, rather, he visited the home of the artist Fairuz.
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