Prime Minister Abdul Hamid Dbeibah, on Sunday, ordered the dissolution of the anti-coronavirus committee established by his predecessor, Fayez Al-Sarraj.
The committee was established in mid-March last year, headed by the Minister of Health and membership of several governmental bodies, among them the ministries of education, interior, justice, transportation, finance, foreign affairs, local government, and economy.
It also included the heads of the National Center for Disease Control, civil society institutions, and the General Union of Libyan Students, besides representatives of the Internal Security Agency, the Social Solidarity Fund, the Libyan Holding Company for Communications, and the Emergency Management at the Ministry of Health.
The multisectoral committee has been mandated to take exceptional and precautionary measures to confront the spread of Covid-19, in coordination with all relevant authorities.
However, in October last year, the Attorney General's Office ordered the halting of all financial transactions related to the anti-covid-19 response plans, after detecting financial violations in the Covid-19 Procurement Committee.
The Government of National Accord faced criticism in managing the pandemic crisis, as the death toll of Covid-19 fatalities in Libya was among the highest in African countries relative to its population, according to the UN report last February.
