Six of the Lebanese evacuated Monday from Sierra Leone have tested positive for coronavirus, the Health Ministry said on Tuesday.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab announced Tuesday that his relation with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri “has been and will remain excellent,” a day after he met with him in Ain el-Tineh following tensions.

The government on Tuesday extended the so-called state of general mobilization over coronavirus to May 24, Information Minister Manal Abdul Samad said.

Financial Prosecutor Ali Ibrahim on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against ten oil companies on charges of embezzling public funds and illicit enrichment, the state-run National News Agency said.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil held talks Tuesday with Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri at the Ain el-Tineh palace.

A Lebanese national repatriated two days ago from Guinea tested positive for coronavirus on Tuesday, media reports said.

President Michel Aoun on Tuesday stressed the need for “quick” and urgent measures to stop the big hike in prices of food commodities.

Aoun said the prices of all kinds of goods have gone beyond acceptable, stressing that “urgent and quick measures must be taken to restore order and activate supervision.”

The Higher Defense Council convened at Baabda Palace on Tuesday to tackle the general situation in the country, including an extension of the so-called general mobilization period aimed at limiting the spread of COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Amid concerns of a second wave of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in Lebanon, Health Minister Hamad Hassan on Tuesday urged vigilance telling people to maintain precautionary measures as key to prevent spread of the virus.

Incumbent and former Greek Orthodox ministers and MPs as well as economic figures met Monday at the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Beirut under Metropolitan Elias Aude and decried perceived “injustice” against their community in public administrations.