{"id":44138,"date":"2020-10-21T06:23:53","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T06:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44138"},"modified":"2020-10-21T06:23:53","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T06:23:53","slug":"jordan-limits-comprehensive-curfew-to-fridays-until-end-of-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=44138","title":{"rendered":"Jordan limits comprehensive curfew to Fridays until end of 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"114\">\n<p>\nBEIRUT:\u00a0Lebanon\u2019s security chief has been forced to delay his return from an official visit to the US after testing positive for coronavirus following a series of White House meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\nMaj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, director-general of the Lebanese Public Security, met with US officials, including David Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs; CIA director Gina Haspel; and national security adviser Robert O\u2019Brien during his recent visit to Washington.<\/p>\n<p>\nHale, as well as several other employees from the State Department and other executive branch divisions, are now self-isolating for 14 days, US officials said.<\/p>\n<p>\nLebanon\u2019s General Directorate of Public Security said that Ibrahim is in \u201cgood health,\u201d but will postpone his return to Beirut following the PCR test.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe Lebanese intelligence chief also held talks with senior US security officials in Washington. He was scheduled to hold meetings in Paris before his return to Beirut.<\/p>\n<p>\nIn Lebanon, the number of coronavirus infections during October rose to more than 24,000, climbing past the September total of 22,000.<\/p>\n<p>\nSince the outbreak began in February, more than 63,000 cases have been reported in the country, with 525 fatalities.<\/p>\n<p>\nFiras Abyad, director of the Rafic Hariri University Hospital, said: \u201cThe situation is unacceptable. If we continue on this path, we will soon reach a point where the number of critical coronavirus cases outweighs the number of available intensive care beds. This will coincide with winter, when the demand for intensive care beds increases for pneumonia cases, for example.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAbyad told Arab News: \u201cOne of the most difficult cases that doctors can face is the death of a mother after giving birth, due to the repercussions of her infection with the coronavirus, and this happened a few days ago in Tripoli.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAbyad pointed to a \u201cstate of denial\u201d among those infected with the virus, saying some \u201cconsider it as just a regular flu, and do not think about the consequences of the disease.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nHe added: \u201cWe have 215 cases that need intensive care in Lebanon. We are not fully occupied yet, but we may be shortly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nAlmost 80 Lebanese towns have been placed in lockdown by the Ministry of Interior after recording high rates of infection.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe one-week lockdown decree issued on Tuesday included the southern Beirut neighborhoods of Ghobeiry, Haret Hreik, Burj Al-Brajneh, Tahwitet Al-Ghadeer and Al-Laylaki.<\/p>\n<p>\nAccording to the Mount Lebanon Governorate, some suburbs \u201cfailed to abide by individual and collective preventive measures to limit the spread of active infection chains.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nThe lockdown includes a ban on \u201csocial events, parties and gatherings of all kinds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nCafes, gaming lounges, amusement parks, sports clubs and public parks will also be closed under the restrictions.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIRUT:\u00a0Lebanon\u2019s security chief has been forced to delay his return from an official visit to the US after testing positive for coronavirus following a series of White House meetings. Maj. Gen. Abbas Ibrahim, director-general of the Lebanese Public Security, met with US officials, including David Hale, the undersecretary of state for political affairs; CIA director&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}