The Lebanese health minister, Firas Abiad, has been diagnosed with COVID-19, according to his office.
It was only after he returned to Lebanon from Geneva that Abiad’s PCR test came back positive.
The number of COVID-19 infections in Lebanon has decreased significantly.
In the last 24 hours, Lebanon reported 133 COVID-19 infections and two deaths, bringing the overall number of cases to 1,099,501 and the death toll to 10,433.