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Lebanon Records 3,010 Cases New Coronavirus Cases, 50 More Deaths

Lebanon Records 3,010 Cases New Coronavirus Cases, 50 More Deaths
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By Staff, Agencies

Lebanon registered Sunday 3,010 new coronavirus cases and 50 further deaths.

The cases were detected among 15,014 PCR tests, a Health Ministry report said. The positivity rate of the tests in the last two weeks stood at 22 percent.

Among the newly recorded cases, only 16 were detected among travelers arriving in Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry report, with the total number of cases since the virus was detected in the country in late February rising to 279,597.

The Health Ministry said 2,368 patients were in hospital for COVID-19, with 913 in ICUs and 295 on ventilators.

Lebanon witnessed a surge in daily virus deaths this week with the highest ever daily death tally at 67 Thursday. The overall number of coronavirus-related deaths since February stands at 2,340.

As cases remained high and hospitals still struggled to face the virus, authorities extended the current lockdown until February 8 in a bid to curb the spread of the virus and relieve the health care sector.

Lebanon has so far ordered 6 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines that are supposed to start arriving in shipments from mid-February, enough for 3 million individuals, taking into account that each patient requires two doses of the vaccine.

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