Lebanon registered on Saturday 1,593 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total number of cases to 570,098, the Health Ministry said, APA reports.
Meanwhile, death toll from the virus went up by six cases to 7,938.
The ministry noted that the PCR positivity rate stands at 6.9 percent. It added that 350 people infected with the virus were in hospital, including 132 patients in intensive care units and 28 on ventilators.
Lebanon has recently witnessed a sharp increase in the number of infections.