The West-Asia North Africa (WANA) Institute documented a series of policy measures that were taken in response to COVID-19 in Lebanon. The WANA team explored the success, stringency, chronological patterns and future implications of these measures on the country. This document is an analytical read of Lebanon’s COVID-19 policy response which coincided with a prolonged economic impasse and a wave of a popular uprising that swept across the country in October 2019.