Coronavirus, work freezes and lockdown violators fuel Lebanon crisis

  • Date: 25-Mar-2020
  • Source: Arab News
  • Sector:Transport
  • Country:Lebanon
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Coronavirus, work freezes and lockdown violators fuel Lebanon crisis

There should be alternatives immediately, otherwise they should prepare coffins for people who will die of hunger. In one particularly nasty incident, a taxi driver torched his car and tried to burn himself to death, after he was stopped by police and fined for transporting four passengers instead of only one.. A video segment went viral on social media, featuring the taxi driver shouting while setting his car and himself ablaze, before being saved and taken to hospital.. The Lebanese Order of Medicine visited Roumieh and held a medical security meeting in which it was decided to reduce overcrowding in prisons.. UAE entrepreneur rushes to meet sanitizer demand as Middle East battles coronavirus /node/1646776/middle-east. The female entrepreneur behind Marssai, which means "my anchor" in Arabic, says her staff have pulled out all the stops to meet the surge in demand for its personal-care products during these challenging times.. Dr. Iman Alashkar, a UAE resident of Syrian origin and a pharmaceutical scientist, says Marssai has sold close to 100,000 bottles of hand sanitizer in a single week.. "The products are full of water, at least 80 percent, and for that, shopping for water internationally didn't make sense.. Alashkar describes the