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Coronavirus: Lebanon to impose overnight shutdown
Lebanon will begin an overnight shutdown from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m., with some exceptions to be announced later, as it steps up measures to combat coronavirus, Information Minister Manal Abdel Samad said on Thursday.
Earlier, Finance Minister Ghazi Wazni issued a circular asking all public institutions to suspend the application of an article of a previous circular until further notice, the Finance Ministry statement said.
Lebanon has so far recorded 368 cases of coronavirus and six deaths.
source: Reuters
