Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri ended the legislative session on Wednesday after quorum was lost during the debate of a draft law that gives the government LBP 1,200 billion for its coronavirus social aid plan.

TV networks said the session will not resume in the evening or on Thursday.

A Palestinian woman from Syria has become the first refugee living in a camp in Lebanon to test positive for the coronavirus, the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said Wednesday. It triggered a spate of testing to determine whether other residents have been infected and the camp has been placed on lockdown.

The agency, UNRWA, said the woman resided in the only Palestinian camp in eastern Lebanon's Bekaa region. It said all necessary measures had been taken and the patient was transferred to the government-run Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut.

A patient from the northern town of al-Dinnieh infected with coronavirus has succumbed to his illness and died at Tripoli’s governmental hospital, the National News Agency reported on Wednesday.

Health Minister Hamad Hassan said Wednesday that more PCR tests will be run in the next fifteen days to prevent a new wave of coronavirus despite the progress achieved in limiting its spread.

Following the Central Bank’s circular on bank withdrawals, criticisms mounted with MP Michel Daher on Wednesday urging BDL governor Riad Salameh to annul the decision.

Lebanon's parliament on Tuesday approved a bill legalizing the cultivation of cannabis for medical use amid the objections of Hizbullah's bloc and several independent MPs.

Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh on Tuesday issued a memo asking banks to allow depositors with foreign currency accounts exceeding $3,000 in value to withdraw their savings in Lebanese pounds at the "market rate," likely to signify 2,600 pounds to the dollar.

He had issued a similar memo in recent weeks related to accounts containing less than $3,000 each.

The Chouf town of Baakline witnessed a mysterious massacre on Tuesday in which at least nine people were killed in separate locations.

The victims include a Syrian couple and their two children, a Syrian man, a Lebanese woman and three Lebanese men.

An Israeli airstrike in central Syria killed nine fighters, including six who were not Syrians and some who were loyal to Lebanon's Hizbullah, an opposition war monitor said Tuesday.

The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights gave no nationalities for the foreigners who were killed on a military post in the desert near the historic central town of Palmyra. It said the dead included some fighters loyal to Hizbullah.

Lebanon's parliament sat Tuesday in a conference hall in Beirut to allow for social distancing between lawmakers amid the coronavirus pandemic, while outside anti-government protesters demonstrated in a car convoy.

As the country struggles with a battered economy, MPs approved a $120 million loan from the World Bank to help fight COVID-19, which has officially infected 677 people and killed 21 nationwide.