Lebanese Foreign Minister contracts Covid-19

Lebanon’s Foreign Minister, Charbel Wehbe has tested positive for coronavirus.

He has been placed under a 14-day quarantine, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

“The result of a PCR test, taken by Foreign Minister Charbel Wehbe, is positive.

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“It came after the first one, which he took the day before yesterday (Monday), needed to be confirmed.

“Since then, the minister was placed under quarantine for a two-week period,” the ministry said in a statement.

Wehbe was appointed as the country’s foreign minister in August after the resignation of the former Foreign Minister, Nassif Hitti.

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