Lebanon recorded a daily record for new cases of Covid-19, with 5,087 contaminations in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 740,814.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, the country deplores 19 additional deaths from the coronavirus out of a total of 9,193 people.
Some 39% of patients infected with Covid in the last 14 days are asymptomatic, 2% of them had severe forms of the virus, and 59% had mild symptoms, he added, noting that on the Of the people infected during the last 14 days, 28.8% were fully vaccinated, 67.5% unvaccinated and 3.7% partially vaccinated.
In this regard, the Lebanese Minister of Health, Firas Abiad, recalled that his Department has increased the bedding capacity of hospitals by 30% for the care of patients with COVID-19, as well as a dispensary of emergency will soon be open to screen for COVID-19.
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