“The first batch of irregular workers who applied for receiving financial assistance worth LE 500 monthly amid the coronavirus outbreak will start cashing out their aid,” Egypt’s government announced Monday. About 1,100 outlets affiliated with the Principal Bank for Development and Agriculture Credit (PBDAC) are ready to welcome the workers daily from 8 a.m. to […]

WHO Representative in Egypt John Jabbour stated on Monday that 85 percent of COVID-19 infections in Egypt recover without treatment. Jabbour stated that the infection spread rate in Egypt has reached a plateau, and that 100 percent of deaths cases suffer from chronic diseases, which cause complications that lead to death. Jabbour clarified that the […]

Companies in the New Administrative Capital, east of the capital Cairo, have distributed face masks among laborers working in the different projects in the city, few days after President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi appeared in a video while scolding officials for allowing laborers to work without masks. All precautionary measures have been taken to ensure the […]

Some 23 suspects were arrested Sunday night as per the Egyptian prosecutor’s orders over attempting to prevent the burial of a doctor who died of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in Dakahlia governorate on April 11. The suspects will be accused of mass gathering in violation to the COVID-19 precautionary measures, resistance of the authorities, disrupting […]

The Egyptian Ministry of Culture’s YouTube channel will present Opera Aida that is scheduled to be broadcast on April 18 and comes as part of the online initiative “Stay at Home … Culture is between your Hands”. Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem agreed with Minister of State for Information Osama Haikal to broadcast the […]

The official Facebook page of the World Youth Forum (WYF) addressed the need for investing the time we spend at home due to the precautionary measures against coronavirus in creativity to entertain ourselves. “Staying at home for a long period of time means that we have to get creative when it comes to entertaining ourselves. […]

Security officials took the legal procedures against a priest who allowed a mass to be held in violation of the government’s decisions to ban gatherings as part of the coronavirus precautionary measures. According to Masrawy website, an official source at the Coptic Orthodox Church explained the details of the church’s decision to close all churches […]

Egypt is getting ready to conduct clinical trials on samples of the Japanese anti-viral drug Aviral as a treatment for COVID-19, Advisor to the Minister of Higher Education for International Relations and Agreements for Scientific Research Affairs, Dr. Mohamed Al-Shennawy, said on Sunday. On Friday, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel Ghaffar […]

As per the directions of President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi, the Armed Forces of Egypt started providing free face masks for public transportation commuters and citizens in the public squares nationwide. “The Armed Forces have established five lines for manufacturing face masks to produce 100,000 masks a day in accordance with the international health measures,” spokesperson […]

A 60-year-old Egyptian man who suffers from hypertension, water on the lungs, and cirrhosis recovered from COVID-19 and left quarantine at 15th of May Hospital in Helwan neighborhood. The man and his son tested positive for COVID-19, but the father had to be subject to mechanical ventilation. He was also given medication for hypertension, and […]