The report added that 9888 PCR tests were conducted during the past 24 hours, adding that the number of cases of recovery from the coronavirus rose to 7097.

According to the report, 10 new coronavirus-related death cases were registered, which raised toll to 239.

Caretaker Public Health Minister, Dr. Hamad Hasan, inaugurated today the special section devoted to receiving Coronavirus patients at the Bar Elias Hospital in the Bekaa, operating under the “Doctors Without Borders” (Médecins Sans Frontières – MSF) Organization, in the presence of Parliamentary Health Committee Head, Dr. Assem Araji, and the Organization’s representative in Lebanon, Julien Raickman, and members of the medical staff.