Many expected Beirut to take a laid-back attitude about the pandemic. Now, army jeeps rumble through the streets at night to enforce a curfew.
BEIRUT—Before the coronavirus pandemic, most nights the streets in Beirut’s busiest neighborhoods were filled with honking horns, window-rattling bass beats and the shouts of anticorruption activists marching toward Martyrs’ Square.
Now, with Covid-related restrictions in place, the city closes up—and quiets down—as the sun sets. The evening silence gave way to a new sound: the nasal hum of a surveillance drone—most likely Israeli—circling off Lebanon’s Mediterranean Coast.
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