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| COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon
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| Disease
| COVID-19
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| Virus strain
| SARS-CoV-2
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| Location
| Lebanon
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| First outbreak
| Wuhan
,
China
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| Index case
| Beirut
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| Arrival date
| 21 February 2020
(4 years, 2 months, 4 weeks and 1 day ago)
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| Confirmed cases
| 878 (as of 13 May)
[1]
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| Recovered
| 236 (as of 13 May)
[1]
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Deaths
| 26 (as of 13 May)
[1]
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The
COVID-19 pandemic
was confirmed to have reached
Lebanon
in February 2020.
On 21 February 2020,
Lebanon
confirmed its first case of COVID-19: a 45-year-old woman traveling back from
Qom
,
Iran
tested positive for
SARS-CoV-2
and was transferred to a hospital in
Beirut
.
[2]
On 26 February, a second woman, who returned from
Iran
on the same
Mahan Air
flight as the first patient, also tested positive.
[3]
[4]
On 27 February, a 77-year-old Iranian man, who arrived from
Iran
on 24 February, tested positive in Beirut.
[5]
[6]
On 28 February, a
Syrian
woman tested positive and was admitted to Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut.
[7]
On 29 February, the total reached 7 confirmed cases.
[8]
On 10 March, the first coronavirus-related death is recorded.
[9]
