The report added that 16811 PCR tests were conducted during the past 24 hours, adding that the number of cases of recovery from the coronavirus rose to 251804.

According to the report, 60 new coronavirus-related death cases were registered, which raised toll to 4152.

Lebanon has started the vaccination campaign across all the provinces after importing the first batch of Pfizer vaccines. Meanwhile, the health minister, Hamad Hasan, announced that Lebanon would purchase one million shots of the Russian vaccine, Sputnik V.

On February 8, a four-phase plan to ease a total lockdown and reopen the economic sectors took into effect.