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Dollar Squeeze Worsens in Lebanon as Government Asks for Aid

  • Banks stop giving clients dollars, close branches due to virus
  • Lebanon’s central bank signals breakaway from a currency peg
People wearing protective masks queue outside a bank as they wait to withdraw money from an ATM machine in Beirut.

People wearing protective masks queue outside a bank as they wait to withdraw money from an ATM machine in Beirut.

Photographer: Joseph Eid/AFP via Getty Images

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Lebanon’s foreign-exchange crisis is intensifying, prompting another appeal by the government for financial aid after its debt default last month.