Q&A with Fady Gemayel on the impact of the coronavirus crisis on Lebanon’s industry

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To gauge the extent to which Lebanese manufacturing industry, an often overlooked but crucial driver of the economy, is being impacted by the current global coronavirus pandemic in conjunction with the previous difficulties in Lebanon, Executive conducted a phone interview with Fady Gemayel, president of the Association of Lebanese Industrialists. How is Lebanese industry coping with the restrictions on economic activity that have been placed on the country? How serious is the situation for you and what measures were taken by the sector?  It is indeed a very dramatic situation as [the response to the coronavirus] is affecting all the sectors of the economy. We are all primarily concerned about public health of everybody and of the health of workers in industry and the whole chain. We see that developments are unfolding very dramatically as industry has been requested to limit their operations to those basic sectors of food, pharmaceutical,