Hotline for Health Services for Displaced Lebanese 1787
Hotline for the Patient Admission to Hospitals 01/832700
COVID-19 Vaccine Registration Form covax.moph.gov.lb
MoPH Hotline 1214
Are you a new member? Sign up now
 
Let us help you
Read about the latest topics.

Coronavirus: invasive/novel

Generalities
Agent Coronaviruses belong to a large family of viruses that can cause diseases ranging from the common cold to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS).
1) Classical coronavirus: viruses that can infect humans and animals.
- Human coronavirus (HCoV): causing mild illness (229E, OC43, NL63, and HKU1...)
- Animal coronavirus: may infect pigs, domestic and wild birds, bats, rodents, dogs, cats and cattle. They cause acute and chronic diseases in animals such as respiratory and gastro-enteric diseases, neurologic diseases, and liver disease.
2) Novel coronavirus:
- Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV) who caused a large outbreak in 2002-2003.
- Middle East respiratory syndrome–Novel Coronavirus (MERS-CoV): first identified in 2012
- Novel Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19)
Incubation period - HCoV: 2-4 days
- SARS-CoV: 2-10 days (mean; 5 days)
- MERS-CoV: 2-14 days
- COVID-19: 4-7 days (up to 14 days)
Period of transmissibility - HCoV: during the active disease
- SARS-CoV: from onset to 21 days
- MERS-CoV: during illness. The duration of infectivity after resolution of symptoms is unknown.
- COVID-19: usually during illness
Reservoir - HCoV: Humans
- SARS-CoV: cave-dwelling bats (genus Rhinolophus), Himalayan masked palm civet (Paguma larvata), other wildlife animals
- MERS-CoV: may be camels and bats
Modes of transmission - HCoV: person-to-person transmission via repiratory droplets, aerosls, fecal oral route, fomites
- SARS-CoV: 1) Animal-to-person; 2) Person-to-person: while caring for, or living with a patient; via respiratory secretions, via body fluids; or airborne (aerosolized sewage, mechanical ventilation...)
- MERS-CoV: 1) Limited person-to-person transmission: close contact, when providing unprotected care to a patient; 2) Suspected animal-to-person transmission via droplet contact, fomite transmission, food-borne, airbone
- COVID-19: 1) Person-to-person: droplets (directly or indirectly), aerosol generating medical procedures, 2) Animal-to-peron
Clinical presentation - HCoV: usually self-limited illness as upper respiratory infection, otitis media, gastroenteritis. Complications: pneumonia, encephalitis, peritonitis...
- SARS-CoV: pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). Global case fatality in 2003: 10%.
- MERS-CoV: usually, acute lower respiratory infection with or without gastrointestinal symptoms. It may be asymptomatic. The illness may be severe in people with chronic medical conditions. It may evolve to respiratory failure, organ failure (as renal failure), septic shock... Global case fatality: 27%.
- COVID-19: usually acute respiratory infection
Resources
Case definition - MOPH circular no. 35 (2012): SARS-CoV
- MOPH circular no. 37 (2014): MERS-CoV
- MOPH circular no. 42 (2020): COVID-19
Forms - General reporting form
- Novel Coronavirus reporting form
- Laboratory request form
- Patient transfert request form
- SARS-CoV investigation form
- MERS-CoV investigation form
Data - SARS-CoV: No SARS-CoV was detected in Lebanon in 2003
- MERS-CoV: 2 cases detected and confirmed in 2014 and 2017
- COVID-19: Daily report on COVID-19
Other Resources - Specimen collection for COVID-19
- Questions and Answers
- Presentation: coronavirus, A, E
- Presentation: resources, A, E
- Presentation: questions and answers, A, E
- Presentation: case definition, A, E
- Presentation: specimen collection, A, E
- Presentation: areas with community transmission, A, E
    ...
    9
    ...
ATC Name B/G Ingredients Dosage Form Price
R06AE09 XYZAL B Levocetirizine dihydrochloride - 5mg 5mg Tablet, film coated 572,477 L.L
R06AE09 CALIVIDA G Levocetirizine dihydrochloride - 5mg 5mg Tablet, film coated 447,948 L.L
R06AE09 LEVOTREX G Levocetirizine dihydrochloride - 5mg 5mg Tablet, film coated 447,948 L.L
R06AE09 LIVIDA G Levocetirizine dihydrochloride - 5mg 5mg Tablet, film coated 447,948 L.L
R06AE09 ZOLICIN G Levocetirizine dihydrochloride - 5mg 5mg Tablet, film coated 228,453 L.L
R06AE09 CALIVIDA G Levocetirizine dihydrochloride - 0.5mg/ml 0.5mg/ml Solution 1,158,264 L.L
R06AE07 ZYRTEC B Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 10mg 10mg Tablet, film coated 593,978 L.L
R06AE07 CETALLERG G Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 10mg 10mg Tablet, film coated 180,075 L.L
R06AE07 CETIMED G Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 10mg 10mg Tablet, scored 360,918 L.L
R06AE07 CETRAK G Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 10mg 10mg Tablet 147,823 L.L
R06AE07 FINALLERG G Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 10mg 10mg Tablet, film coated 342,680 L.L
R06AE07 ZYRTEC B Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 1% 1% Drops 170,668 L.L
R06AE07 RINALGIT G Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 10mg/ml 10mg/ml Drops solution 237,860 L.L
R06AE07 ZYRTEC B Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 5mg/5ml Solution 278,175 L.L
R06AE07 CETIMED G Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 5mg/5ml 5mg/5ml Solution 415,951 L.L
R06AE07 FINALLERG G Cetirizine (dihydrochloride) - 5mg/5ml 5mg/5ml Solution 170,668 L.L
R06AD52 FLUISEDAL G Promethazine HCl - 2.5g/5ml, Meglumine benzoate - 130mg/5ml, Polysorbate 20 - 15mg/5ml Syrup 393,746 L.L
R06AD52 FLUISEDAL G Promethazine HCl - 2.5g/5ml, Meglumine benzoate - 130mg/5ml, Polysorbate 20 - 15mg/5ml Syrup 550,821 L.L
R06AD52 CODOPALM G Promethazine HCl - 5mg/5ml, Sodium gentisate - 0.5mg/5ml Syrup 149,742 L.L
R06AD08 TOPLEXIL B Oxomemazine HCl - 0.33mg/ml 0.33mg/ml Syrup 615,480 L.L
R06AD02 PROMETHAZINE HYDROCHLORIDE G Promethazine HCl - 5mg/5ml 5mg/5ml Syrup 204,776 L.L
R06AD02 PROMETAL G Promethazine - 25mg 25mg Tablet 194,537 L.L
R06AD02 PROMETAL G Promethazine - 25mg 25mg Tablet 8,003,607 L.L
R06AB54 ALERGICAL EXPECTORANT B Chlorpheniramine maleate - 50mg/100ml, Guaifenesin - 2000mg/100ml, Dihydroxypropyltheophylline - 500mg/100ml, Paracetamol - 2000mg/100ml Syrup 485,127 L.L
R06AB54 DRAUDEX G Chlorphenamine maleate - 4mg, Phenylephrine - 5mg Tablet, sugar coated 166,381 L.L
R06AB52 HISTAMED-F G Dexchlorpheniramine - 2mg/5ml, Dexamethasone - 0.25mg/5ml Syrup 712,876 L.L
R06AB52 HISTAMED-F G Dexchlorpheniramine maleate - 2mg, Dexamethasone - 0.25mg, Fluphenazine HCl - 0.25mg Tablet, coated 579,772 L.L
R06AB02 HISTAMED G Dexchlorpheniramine maleate - 1% 1% Gel 477,384 L.L
R06AA59 CARIBAN B Pyridoxine HCl - 10mg, Doxylamine succinate - 10mg Capsule, hard, modified release 1,701,305 L.L
R06AA52 AMYDRAMINE G Diphenhydramine HCl - 13.5mg/5ml, Sodium citrate - 57mg/5ml, Ammonium chloride - 131.5mg/5ml, Menthol - 1mg/5ml Syrup, sugar free 133,040 L.L
    ...
    9
    ...
Sitemap
© Copyrights reserved to Ministry of Public Health 2025