These Are The 79 Towns Now Ordered To Lock Down In Lebanon
The Coronavirus Follow-up Committee issued new preventive measures and procedures after a meeting held on Saturday. The recommendations are the following:
Adopting the positive results of the tests conducted in most Lebanese towns and villages to determine the level of risk in them.
Request the Ministry of Public Health to increase the number of tests conducted in villages that are classified as dangerous and in which the number of cases is increasing.
Leaving the decision of closing or opening educational institutions and administrative units in towns and villages that are not under lockdown to be issued by the Minister of Education.
Order the lockdown of the listed towns.
Emphasizing the wearing of the masks and strictly fining violators.
Banning all kinds of social events, closing governmental and private institutions and schools in the villages under lockdown, and coordinating with religious authorities in terms of holding prayers.
Following these recommendations for one week.
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The Minister of Interior issued a list with the names of the towns and villages that have been classified as 'high risk'. The number of towns under lockdown is 79.
New places were added to the decision, while others were removed and some were kept closed. The lockdown will start from 6:00 am on Monday, October 19th, and until 6:00 am on Monday, October 26th.
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These towns and villages are:
Kesserwan:
Achkout
Ain El-Rihana
Ajaltoun
Adma / Ain El-Defna
Shannir
Faytroun
Ghazir
Ghosta
Jounieh Ghadir
Jounieh / Haret Sakher
Jounieh / Sarba
Raifoun
Zouk Mosbeh
Akkar:
Aboudieh
Al-Majdel Akkar