The tremor of a 6.6-magnitude quake that hit off the west coast of Cyprus early Tuesday, was felt in Lebanon.

There were no reports of casualties or structural damage, although the quake was felt around the region with reports from as far away as Turkey, Egypt, Israel and Lebanon, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Business in Lebanon's winter resorts is returning to normal after last year's complete lockdown due to the spread of COVID-19 that badly hurt winter tourism in the small country.

Skiers were seen running down the piste and children sliding down the hills at the Faraya-Mzaar ski resort, this weekend, despite the newly imposed restrictions and the financial crisis described by the World Bank as one of the worst in the world since the 1850s.

“Cabinet won’t convene and everybody is now aware of this,” ministerial sources said.

The sources told al-Joumhouria newspaper, in remarks published Tuesday, that everyone has “adapted to the disruption.”

If he wasn't making good money smuggling irregular migrants to the European Union by sea, Ibrahim himself might have joined the growing exodus from crisis-hit Lebanon.

"If I didn't work in this profession, I would have left, just like so many other people," said the 42-year-old trafficker, who asked to use a pseudonym when he spoke to AFP in the northern city of Tripoli.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Monday expressed his “full solidarity” with Lebanon in a meeting in Sharm el-Sheikh with Prime Minister Najib Miqati.

Al-Sisi also voiced Egypt’s “readiness to contribute to delivering the Egyptian gas” to Lebanon “according to the signed treaties,” giving instructions to “facilitate the issue and speed up its implementation.”

President Michel Aoun on Monday announced that his call for national dialogue concerns all Lebanese and is “not aimed at achieving a partisan or personal interest.”

“As for our call for dialogue, we first received position reactions, but some reservations have started to emerge,” Aoun said in a meeting with Druze spiritual leader Sheikh Sami Abi al-Muna.

President Michel Aoun wants the national dialogue conference to be held before the end of the month should his upcoming bilateral meetings manage to convince a number of parties, al-Joumhouria newspaper reported on Monday.

As of Tuesday, the President will hold separate meetings with a representative of the Development and Liberation bloc, Loyalty to Resistance bloc head MP Mohammed Raad, Marada Movement chief Suleiman Franjieh, Mount Lebanon Guarantee bloc head MP Talal Arslan and Tashnag bloc chief MP Hagop Pakradounian, the daily quoted informed sources in Baabda as saying.

Free Patriotic Movement MP Asaad Dergham said that “Amal and Hizbullah are committing a crime against the Lebanese.”

Dergham stated, on al-Jadeed TV, that the Cabinet not convening is a “crime.”

“The Cabinet won’t convene anytime soon,” Shiite Duo sources said, adding that the statement Prime Minister Najib Miqati made from Baabda about an imminent Cabinet session is “only a wish.”

The Duo sources told Nidaa al-Watan newspaper, in remarks published Monday, that Miqati will not call for a Cabinet session without the Shiite approval, and “no consensus has been reached yet.”

Prime Minister Najib Miqati arrived Monday in Egypt, on an official visit.

He participated in the fourth edition of the World Youth Forum, held in Sharm El-Sheikh under the patronage of President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.