The Health Ministry announced zero coronavirus cases on Tuesday, keeping the number of people infected at 677.

Lebanon’s lawmakers kicked off legislative sessions at Beirut's UNESCO Palace theater to discuss 66 items on the agenda including the controversial amnesty law, as anti-government protests resume momentum.

Lebanese protesters gathered at the Ring flyover and in Martyr's Square in Downtown Beirut ahead of a planned vehicle march to the UNESCO Palace where the Parliament is set to convene, the National News Agency reported on Tuesday.

Campaigners flocked from various regions to partake in protests against the country's deteriorating economic and financial conditions, aggravated by the coronavirus outbreak.

The toughest part of the ordeal “has passed” and the coronavirus crisis is “nearing its end in Lebanon,” Health Minister Hamad Hasan said on Monday.

Special Tribunal for Lebanon Pre-Trial Judge Daniel Fransen has granted the status of victim participating in the proceedings (VPP) to 29 of 33 victims who applied to participate in the proceedings in the Prosecutor v. Ayyash case (STL-18-10), the STL said on Monday.

Free Patriotic Movement chief Jebran Bassil on Monday noted that the country can overcome its financial deficit without “touching bank deposits or selling the state's assets.”

Israeli warplanes on Monday staged mock raids at medium altitude over the southern Lebanese regions of Nabatiyeh and Iqlim al-Tuffah, the National News Agency said.

Former Grand Sunni Mufti of the Republic Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Qabbani warned on Monday against seizing part of of people’s life savings in banks, saying it is “prohibited” in Islam.

Four individuals have tested positive for the novel coronavirus COVID-19 on Monday, raising Lebanon’s cases to 677, the Health Ministry announced.

A series of measures and traffic directives will be taken during the Parliament’s three-day legislative sessions to be held this week exceptionally at Beirut’s UNESCO Palace, the Internal Security Forces Directorate said in a statement on Monday.