Top Headlines
- Egypt declares two-week curfew to counter coronavirus
- Egypt extends flight suspension for two more weeks
- Egypt’s Central Bank sets new daily cash deposit and withdrawal limits amid COVID-19 outbreak
- Egypt began deep cleaning the area around the Giza Pyramids
- Egypt’s cabinet holds first virtual meeting amid coronavirus pandemic
- Egypt sentences five people to death for deadly oil pipeline explosion
Main Headlines
Monday
- Egypt allocates EGP 1 billion to provide preventative medical supplies
Tuesday
- Egypt declares two-week curfew to counter coronavirus
- Egypt’s stock exchange shortens trading hours
- Egypt evacuates Cairo’s largest market to curb coronavirus spread
- Egypt sanitizes prisons, targets price manipulators amid coronavirus crisis
- Egypt extends flight suspension for two more weeks
Wednesday
- Egypt began deep cleaning the area around the Giza Pyramids
- 20-30% cut in Egypt’s fuel prices is expected by 1 April
- Egypt’s health ministry calls for volunteers to fight coronavirus
- “Stay at home” to avoid coronavirus, Egypt’s health minister tells Egyptians
Thursday
- Egypt forces Guardian journalist to leave after coronavirus story
- Cairo is eerily silent in the first day of national curfew
- Egypt has ample opportunity to control coronavirus outbreak: WHO
Friday
- Egypt reports 6 new coronavirus deaths, total cases reach 536: Health Ministry
- Egypt tests nationals returning from Europe for coronavirus
- Egypt sentences five people to death for deadly oil pipeline explosion
- Egyptian government meets via video conference tntensifies efforts against Coronavirus
- Italy praises Egypt’s medical team for saving the lives of 10 elderly tourists with coronavirus
Saturday
- Health Minister: Egypt yet see peak in coronavirus cases.
- Egypt uses chloroquine in treating COVID-19 patients
- Egypt’s Mediterranean shores closed to curb COVID-19 spread
- Egypt sends humanitarian, medical aid to Gaza
Sunday
- 33 new Egyptians test positive for coronavirus, 4 seniors die
- Egypt’s Central Bank sets new daily cash deposit and withdrawal limits amid COVID-19 outbreak
- Some Egyptian villages are isolated in 10 governorates over Coronavirus
- Egypt’s prosecution: Jail term and EGP 20,000 fine for spreading rumours about coronavirus
- Egypt extends closure of mosques over coronavirus indefinitely
Reports
- ‘We can’ initiative provides face masks, cleaning supplies to Egypt’s poor to Egypt’s poor amid virus outbreak. Al-Masry Al-Youm
- In Egypt, transgender activist fights battle on many fronts. AP
- Coronavirus: Unaffordable social distance. Nada Zaki
- On the frontlines of COVID-19: Chronicles of a head nurse. Rana Mamdouh
- Egypt’s female lion tamers show the men how to do it. Declan Walsh
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- GERD: Playing for time. Doaa El-Bay
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