NNA - Minister of Public Health Dr. Firas Al-Abiad’s press office on Friday issued a statement explaining that the facts and details concerning the cost of PCR tests at Beirut airport were forwarded by the Ministry of Public Health to the Court of Audit’s Public Prosecutor, Judge Fawzi Khamis, who had duly opened an investigation into the matter. 

“The ministry currently awaits a decision on the aforementioned dossier to answer the basic question that has been posed, which is the fate of the money that had been paid for these tests over the previous period and that airlines had already cashed in,” the statement explained. 

It is to note that the Ministry of Public Health has reduced the cost of the current PCP test for arrivals to $30 per person when airlines have been charging $50 per person. 

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