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The disaster was preceded by a large fire at the Port of Beirut, on the city’s northern Mediterranean coast. In videos posted on social media white smoke could be seen billowing from Warehouse 12, next to the port’s huge grain silos.
Shortly after 6:00pm, the roof of the warehouse caught alight and there was a large initial explosion, followed by a series of smaller blasts that some witnesses said sounded like fireworks going off. About 30 seconds later, there was a colossal explosion that sent a mushroom cloud into the air and a supersonic blastwave radiating through the city.

Lebanon’s confirmed cases of coronavirus have reached 9,758 a 2,852 recovery and a total of 107 deaths espite a two weeks government lockdown, as one doctor warned that the health system was “beyond its capacity”.

Lebanon has the fastest growing older adult population in
the Arab region,but few societal resources to address its needs.
In a country with a history of political instability and war,
but also a culture with strong family values, aging adults in
Lebanon are vulnerable in some ways and advantaged in other way.

The revolutionary wave continues to grow to include wider sectors of society.
Protesters keep surprising themselves and everybody else as they lead a popular
uprising that has swept across the country, breaking taboos, stereotypes, and the
centrality of Beirut as the only place that matters in the Lebanese political,
economic and cultural narratives.<