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Acting Prime Minister Dr. Hassan Diab chaired a meeting of the Coronavirus Monitoring Committee tonight in government offices, in the presence of Ministers Zeina Aker, Raoul Nehme, Muhammad Fahmy, Imad Hoballah, Michel Najjar, Hamad Hassan, Tariq Al Majzoub and Charbel Wahba, Secretary General of the Judge of the Council of Ministers. Mahmoud Makiya, Secretary General of the Supreme Defense Council, Major General Mahmoud Al-Asmar and advisers Khader Talib and Petra Khoury.
The committee discussed developments related to the Corona epidemic in light of the emergence of the new strain of the virus in Britain.
Several measures have been adopted to limit the transmission of the virus to Lebanon, among which the following stand out: “Carry out a PCR test for all arrivals from the UK to Lebanon upon arrival at Beirut International Airport, with the obligation to carry out a test PCR for the second time 72 hours after entering the Lebanese territories in an accredited laboratory.
The Ministry of Health is in charge of providing the Ministry of the Interior with all the information related to the addresses of the arrivals so that they can be tracked by it, provided that positive cases are quarantined when results appear in the quarantine centers until a test is performed to identify the strain of virus infected with it.
Middle East Airlines will bear the cost of the two pcr checks mentioned above, without the passenger incurring any additional cost.
