Caretaker Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi on Sunday issued a memo containing a new list of towns and areas that will be locked down as of Monday morning due to their high rate of coronavirus infections.

Lebanon’s General Directorate of General Security on Sunday announced busting a network that was smuggling people to Spain via Beirut’s airport.

Caretaker Public Works and Transport Minister Michel Najjar announced Sunday that he has contracted the novel coronavirus.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday called on politicians to “release” the new government from the captivity of their interests.

The binding parliamentary consultations to pick a new premier will be held on Thursday and will not be postponed, informed sources said on Sunday.

General Security chief Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim arrived Sunday in Paris coming from Washington, MTV reported.

The parliamentary bloc of the Free Patriotic Movement might grant the new government its vote of confidence although it will not name Saad Hariri in the binding parliamentary consultations to pick a new premier, an MP said Sunday.

UK Ambassador to Lebanon Chris Rampling marked the first anniversary of the popular protests in Lebanon on Saturday.

President Michel Aoun marked the first anniversary of the popular movements in Lebanon on Saturday and stressed that reforms are only possible through the government institutions.

UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis released a statement marking the first anniversary of the October 17 uprising in Lebanon.

A year ago, a massive wave of national protests started, that at some point brought to the streets hundreds of thousands, even millions of Lebanese across the whole country, across all sectarian and political divides and affiliations, with women and young people at the center, the statement read.