Lebanon’s hospitals are being overwhelmed by coronavirus cases, medics warned on Saturday, as infection rates surge in the wake of end of year holidays. The national Covid-19 task force was to meet later the same day and expected to advise a three-week lockdown, said Petra Khoury, its head. Lebanon, with a population of around six million, has recorded 183,888 coronavirus cases, including 1,466 deaths, since February. On Thursday, it hit a daily record of more than 3,500 new cases. In what he termed a “catastrophic” situation, Sleiman Haroun, head of the Syndicate of Private Hospitals, said “t…
