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The Philippines' Ambassador to Lebanon Bernardita Catalla has died of complications from the coronavirus, one of only 16 recorded deaths in the country since the start of the pandemic, media reports said on Thursday.

The central bank of Lebanon is in the process of issuing new circulars to banks in order to facilitate cash withdrawals for citizens, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Thursday.

Two coronavirus patients died on Wednesday as six others recovered, the state-run Rafik Hariri University Hospital said.

The two deaths raise the overall fatalities to 14 as the six recoveries take the total to 43, the hospital said in a statement.

Health Minister Hamad Hasan on Wednesday said Lebanon’s coronavirus situation is acceptable at the moment but urged caution and a continued battle against the pandemic.

“Our statistics until today are good but I have always said that the situation remains risky,” Hasan said at a press conference.

Lebanon’s SGBL bank on Wednesday announced that it will postpone collecting the monthly payments for personal and business loans for the months of March, April and May 2020.

No penalties will be imposed and the delayed payments will entail a 0% interest rate, the bank said in a statement.

Prime Minister Hassan Diab held a meeting at the Grand Serail with UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon Jan Kubis where talks focused on ways to cooperate with the United Nations to help Lebanon combat the novel coronavirus pandemic, the National News Agency reported Wednesday.

Justice Minister Marie-Claude Najm said in a tweet on Wednesday that fighting the system of quotas in Lebanon is more difficult than fighting the novel COVID-19 pandemic, as the cabinet braces to approve administrative appointments related to Banque du Liban and the Capital Markets Authority.

“Thirty years of clientelism and distribution of quotas between sectarian leaders resulting in: corruption in the state’s structure, $100 billion and more in debt, economic and financial collapse, despair, emigration and an uprising,” said Najm in her tweet.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Bahrain & Deputy State Department Spokesman Adam Ereli on Wednesday warned of the consequences if the novel COVID-19 virus hits encampments of refugees deployed in various countries.

The response of Western countries and international organizations to Lebanon's call for aid to confront coronavirus declined, and the circulars sent to embassies and Lebanese consulates did not list any request for medical supplies, the Saudi Asharq al-Awsat daily reported on Wednesday.