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Lebanon imposes 4 days lockdown as COVID-19 cases spike

Lebanon will return to lockdown on Wednesday as the government declared an additional four-day lockdown to stem the rising number of COVID-19 cases in the country just over a week after reopening the country.

The government on Tuesday directed the shutdown from “May 13 in the evening until Monday, May 18 in the morning,” the state-run National News Agency announced.

The Interior Ministry is anticipated to issue a declaration to define what areas and which people will be excluded from the measures.

At the beginning of the Cabinet’s meeting, President Michel Aoun highlighted the need to “tighten preventative measures to cope with the coronavirus pandemic, especially that the number of infections, unfortunately, increased in the past days.”

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