The Ministry of Health launched Saturday an auto-responder service to answer citizens’ questions regarding the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) via Whatsapp mobile application. The service will be provided for free around the clock to offer a reliable and official source for the updated information on COVID-19, said Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Mogahed. Service seekers could save […]

Transport Minister Kamel el Wazir inspected Saturday the first phase of a project to develop the western Cairo-Aswan desert road. The 230-kilometer-long phase runs from Cairo to Minya. The minister stressed the importance of continuing such road projects, which he said are of great importance to Egypt’s economy and sustainable development. He also thanked construction […]

Egypt’s Red Sea authorities allowed an Italian cruise ship carrying about 2,000 tourists to enter Hurghada port to save the life of an Italian tourist suffering from kidney failure, Egyptian newspaper Sada al-Balad on Saturday. Only the tourist and his wife were disembarked from the ship, which was inbound from Oman to Italy. Before being […]

Minister of State for Information Osama Heikal said on Saturday that presidency staff will donate 20 percent of their salaries to Tahya Misr (Long Live Egypt) Fund for three months. In a press statement, Heikal said the donation aims at supporting irregular workers, whose living conditions worsened due to the coronavirus outbreak

Egypt’s Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation has implemented a number of development projects in irrigation systems over an area of 7,476 feddans (1 feddan = about 1.038 acres) in investments estimated at LE 183,739 million, announced the ministry in a statement on Saturday. The projects aim at changing the surface irrigation systems into the […]

The Cairo Criminal Court on Saturday put off till May 27 the trial of 35 defendants implicated in the Warraq island case. The case dates back to July 16, 2017, when police arrived at Giza’s Warraq island to remove encroachments on state-owned lands and clashes ensued with the residents. The clashes left at least 33 […]

This story in the WSJ is about pregnant Emergency Room doctors still working. These three doctors are in the University of Maryland Medical System. They have leave but are working because if all three were to take leave it would pose significant strain on their group and their colleagues. They have to reuse their respirator […]

As the novel coronavirus pandemic shuts down businesses globally and sends countries into lockdown, the disruptions are threatening to cut off supply chains and increase food insecurity. “Supermarket shelves remain stocked for now,” the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) said in a report released late last month. “But a protracted pandemic crisis could […]

The Chinese government has issued a new draft list of livestock that can be farmed for meat in the wake of the coronavirus epidemic, which is suspected to have originated from wild animals in a Wuhan wet market. Beijing temporarily banned all trade in wild animals for food following the outbreak, which has now spread […]

Brazil has become the first country in the southern hemisphere to surpass 1,000 deaths with coronavirus. The health ministry confirmed 1,056 deaths and 19,638 cases. The numbers are likely to be much higher as only patients at hospitals are being tested. Most states have imposed quarantine measures but President Jair Bolsonaro has challenged the restrictions, […]