MANSOURA, Egypt, March 24 (MENA) – Dakahliya governorate distributed on Tuesday 600 tons of sanitizers on its cities and neighborhoods to face coronavirus. This comes at the directives of Dakahliya Governor Ayman Mokhtar to combat COVID 19. Deputy Governor Haitham el Sheikh said that distributing chlorine on the cities and neighborhoods of the governorate continues […]

ISMAILIA, Egypt, March 23 (MENA) – An Italian cruise ship crossed Monday the Suez Canal using remote guidance for the first time ever in the canal’s history. COSTA DIADEMA transited the international waterway as part of the north-bound convoy after coming from the UAE en route to Italy. Chairman of the Suez Canal Authority Osama […]

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has pleaded for medical supplies, warning that Covid-19’s peak in the state will be worse than anticipated. “The apex is higher than we thought and the apex is sooner than we thought,” Mr Cuomo told reporters on Tuesday. He said the federal government was not sending enough equipment to combat […]

France has become the fifth country to report more than 1,000 coronavirus-related deaths – as another 743 people died from the disease in Italy. The death toll in France stands at 1,100, compared with 860 deaths yesterday – an increase of 240. A French public health official also said there are 2,516 people needing life […]

Albert Uderzo, who drew the Asterix comic books, has died at the age of 92. He created the famous stories – about the adventures of Gaulish warriors fighting the Roman Empire – with his friend René Goscinny in 1959. As well as illustrating the series, Urderzo took over the writing following Goscinny’s death in 1977. […]

CAIRO, March 23 (MENA) – Cairo Governor Khaled Abdel Aal has stressed the importance of preventing mass gatherings in El Moski and Attaba areas in Downtown Cairo to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus. During an inspection tour of the two overcrowded areas, Abdel Aal called on owners of shops to abide by the […]

A new study that looks at lifespan in wild mammals shows that females live substantially longer than males. The research finds that, on average, females live 18.6% longer than males from the same species. This is much larger than the well-studied difference between men and women, which is around 8%. The scientists say the differences […]

CAIRO – 24 March 2020: President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi tweeted twice on Tuesday on strict protective measures taken against the coronavirus pandemic for 15 days starting Wednesday. A tweet came before the press conference held by Prime Minister Mostafa madbouly to make the announcement while the other came later. In the first tweet, the president […]

At the same time that the first death in the Chinese province of Yunnan from the Hanta virus was announced, many questions and information exchange took place through the social media, amid a state of panic among social media users, especially after the spread of the Corona virus in the world and the death of […]

Australia is famously home to all sorts of exotic animals, including snakes. However, one woman was still shocked to find a 4.5-meter (14.8-foot) albino Burmese python on her front porch in Oxenford, Queensland, on Monday. The 50-kilogram (110-pound) snake was large enough to eat a dog, and removing the animal required the specialist skills of snake catcher Tony […]