Lebanon latest country to restrict travel over coronavirus fears
Lebanon has banned flights to and from countries hardest hit by the coronavirus.
Lebanon is halting all flights to and from the countries hardest hit by the coronavirus, and giving its citizens in other coronavirus-struck countries four days to return home.
Flights to and from Italy, South Korea, China and Iran will be suspended, Prime Minister Hassan Diab said March 11. Lebanon will also ban arrivals from France, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom.
The country of some 6 million people has at least 61 confirmed cases of COVID-19. In what marked the country’s first recorded death, a 56-year-old man with pre-existing health conditions contracted the disease while visiting Egypt and died March 10.
Health officials on Wednesday also confirmed the death of a 55-year-old Lebanese man who had been in contact with others who had recently traveled abroad.
