Lebanese have called for mass rallies this week to protest against the country’s “economic and financial deterioration,” after months of mass anti-government rallies brought to a halt over the coronavirus outbreak, media reports said on Monday.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday stressed that “this is not the time for futile political conflicts and alignments” but rather for “common action to rescue the country and the people.”

“The people are not searching for loyalists and opponents but rather for rescuers,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

Interior Minister Mohammed Fahmi on Sunday revised the duration of the nighttime coronavirus curfew and essential shop closure.

According to a memo issued by Fahmi, at Prime Minister Hassan Diab's directions, the curfew will now begin at 8pm instead of 7pm. It will still end at 5am.

Only one coronavirus case was confirmed in Lebanon over the past 24 hours, the Health Ministry said on Sunday.

Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut Elias Aude on Sunday warned the government against seizing any funds from depositors' bank accounts, urging it to serve all the people and not only certain components.

A five-star hotel in Beirut that once hosted royalty and survived the civil war has been forced to close over Lebanon's economic crisis and coronavirus lockdown, its manager said Saturday.

The Health Ministry said in a statement on Saturday that four new cases of coronavirus were recorded raising the tally to 672.

Kataeb chief Sami Gemayel in televised remarks on Saturday blamed the “ruling authority, Banque du Liban and Hizbullah” party for the economic and financial crises in Lebanon.

Police are investigating a stabbing incident in the southern city of Sidon that began as a personal dispute and ended with several injured.

Several hundred people protested in Lebanon late on Friday despite the country's coronavirus lockdown, marking six months since mass rallies broke out over government corruption and economic hardship.

Protestors in the northern city of Tripoli threw rocks at security forces, who responded with teargas to disperse a group attempting to approach a parliamentarian's house, an AFP reporter said.