Egypt’s Medical Syndicate demands isolation hospital for medical staff
In a letter addressed to the President of the Republic and the Minister of Health, the Medical Syndicate called for the necessity of allocating an isolation hospital for doctors and other health care workers infected with coronavirus. Infected cases among…
Egypt doctor loses sight due to work stress amid coronavirus crisis
Doctor Mahmoud Sami, a specialist of infectious diseases at Bella Hospital, lost his eyesight while working in a coronavirus quarantine hospital. After a stressful day and working more than 12 hours in the quarantine hospital, Sami suffered from breathing difficulties and…
Egypt’s Health Ministry announces COVID-19 coexistence plan
The Ministry of Health has announced a preliminary three-stage plan for coexisting with the coronavirus (COVID-19). The plan includes visual and oral sorting and temperature measurements for all citizens before entering public buildings, metros and trains. Citizens will also be…
Central Bank: $17 billion of foreign capital withdrawn from Egypt
Rami Aboul Naga, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, revealed that some $17 billion of foreign capital has been withdrawn from Egypt due to the corona crisis. Aboul Naga pointed out that the peak of the exit wave was during…
Egypt receives new IMF loan
The Central Bank of Egypt announced that Egypt had received the $2.77 billion loan that the International Monetary Fund agreed to grant to Egypt through the rapid financing tool, to meet the repercussions caused by the coronavirus. The International Monetary…
Egypt’s Medical Syndicate criticises official coronavirus test protocol
The Egyptian Medical Syndicate called on both the President and the Minister of Health to change instructions issued by the infection control administration of the Ministry of Health regarding dealing with health care workers who come into contact with confirmed…
WHO: Egypt should perform more coronavirus tests
The World Health Organisation has called on Egypt for the second time to increase the number of coronavirus tests and have a unified methodology for doing so. Rana al-Hajjah, Director of Programmes at the WHO Regional Office, said that the…
Bloomberg: Egypt seeks to borrow $9 billion
Bloomberg has reported that Egypt is seeking more than $5 billion from the International Monetary Fund under a stand-by arrangement and $4 billion from other institutions. The borrowing would come in addition to the $2.8 billion received this week under…
Converting pharmacists to doctors: Al-Sisi’s controversial proposal to tackle coronavirus
The coronavirus outbreak has forced the Egyptian government to search for urgent solutions to compensate for the acute shortage of medical personnel and to save the medical sector from collapse. But the proposals were not based on scientific studies, which…
US forces withdraw from Sinai: Why now?
American media have revealed that Defence Minister Mark Esber is seeking to withdraw 400 soldiers from the Multinational Force & Observers (MFO) known as International Peacekeeping Forces, which were formed in the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula under the peace treaty (Camp…
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