Lebanon announced on Friday it was closing the country’s schools effective Feb. 29 until March 8 as a precautionary measure against the spread of Coronavirus, an education ministry statement said.
Lebanon on Friday confirmed the country’s fourth case of the virus and has restricted flights from countries affected by the outbreak.
On the other hand, anti-government protesters hold up banners in Arabic that read, “You are the Coronavirus, you are the epidemic, and Humiliation, bankruptcy, looting, starving and killing the rest of us,” during ongoing protests against the Lebanese government in front of the Lebanese Ministry of Health, in Beirut, Lebanon, Wednesday.
