Egypt's health ministry announced on Saturday six more deaths from the coronavirus and the detection of 40 new infections, bringing the total to 576 cases, including 36 fatalities.
The 40 new coronavirus patients are Egyptians, except for one (...)
Egypt's health ministry has announced that it is holding a webinar on Sunday on the protection against and the treatment of coronavirus (COVID-19).
In a post on its official Facebook page, the ministry said on Saturday that it is inviting all (...)
Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the deputy supreme commander of the UAE Armed Forces and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, said that he discussed with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi on Saturday the joint efforts to combat the spread of (...)
Egyptian comedian George Sidhom, a co-founder of one of the oldest stand-up comedy groups in the Arab world, Tholathy Adwaaa El-Masrah, has died at the age of 81, local media reported.
After Tholathy Adwaaa El-Masrah, which also featured El Deif (...)
At least 15 people were killed and around two dozen others injured when a trailer-truck plowed into a string of vehicles on a highway in Cairo's twin city of Giza late on Wednesday, Ahram Arabic news website reported.
The crash took place hours (...)
Egypt's Education Minister Tarek Shawki has said that final year exams for third preparatory grade students have been cancelled and replaced with a research paper, to be prepared by students from the curricula studied in each course until 15 March, (...)
Egypt's Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly approved on Thursday several draft laws setting up a periodic minimum raise for public sector employees who are employed under the civil service law, increasing additional bonuses for state employees, and (...)
Egyptian prosecution ordered the four-day detention of a truck driver over a deadly accident that left 18 people dead in Giza on Wednesday, a judicial source told Ahram Online on Thursday.
The multi-vehicle accident on a stretch of the ring road (...)
The vast majority of coronavirus cases detected in Egypt were in direct contact with affected people, Egypt's health ministry spokesman said.
“More than 90 percent of the newly discovered coronavirus cases in Egypt had come into contact with (...)
Egypt's four mobile operators are opening their stores to customers for unified, reduced hours under the night-time curfew the country imposed to curb the spread of the coronavirus, the National Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (NTRA) (...)
Egypt has registered 40 new coronavirus cases, health minister Hala Zayed said in a press conference on Wednesday, raising the country's total number to 442.
The minister confirmed one more death from the respiratory disease, bringing the number of (...)
Former Egypt striker Mido has taken part in a campaign jointly launched by FIFA and the World Health Organization (WHO) to spread awareness over the coronavirus.
Known as COVID-19, the virus has infected almost half a million people since its (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has instructed the government to take additional precautionary measure to stem the spread of the coronavirus in the country.
The president said in a tweet that he has tasked the government with implementing (...)
The first two cases of coronavirus were confirmed in the besieged Gaza Strip on Sunday by the Palestinian Health Ministry.
Two Palestinian men — aged 79 and 63 — who had travelled from Pakistan and entered Gaza through Egypt tested positive for the (...)
• Number of positive Covid-19 cases reached 366 on Monday night. The death toll reached 19.
• The virus has been detected in 24 out of Egypt's 27 governorates, with the most infections in Damietta, Daqahliya, and Minya.
• Mass prayers at mosques (...)
PRESIDENT Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi addressed the nation on efforts to combat the Covid-19 pandemic this week. The address took place during his meeting with a group of Egyptian women to mark Mothers' Day which in Egypt is celebrated on 21 March.
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Egypt reported one new death and 36 new novel coronavirus cases on Tuesday, bringing the total to 402 cases nationwide, according to a statement by the health ministry.
The total death toll since the discovery of the virus in the country in February (...)
Egypt will extend the suspension of air traffic for an additional two weeks, Minister of Information Osama Heikal said on Tuesday.
Egypt suspended international flights to and from the country at all airports nationwide on 19 March.
Only exceptional (...)
Egypt has allocated EGP 1 billion ($63.69 million) to the health ministry to help it provide preventative medical supplies needed to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, the cabinet said in a statement on Tuesday.
The decision by Prime Minister (...)
The famous statue of the great Pharaoh Ramses II that used to stand in Cairo's Ramses Square was recently moved from its temporary resting place on the Giza Plateau to the Grand Egyptian Museum (GEM). It will be displayed in the grand entrance hall (...)
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi talked with King Abdullah of Jordan on Tuesday by phone, discussing the experiences of Egypt and Jordan in their attempts to counter the coronavirus, the Egyptian presidency said.
The two leaders agreed to (...)
Egypt's Dar Al-Ifta, the country's body responsible for issuing religious edicts, said on Tuesday that any calls for gathering in the streets are religiously prohibited.
The statement came one day after dozens of people took to the streets in the (...)
An Egyptian man died in Italy on Sunday of coronavirus, and his family have been quarantined after testing positive for the disease.
The 51-year old Egyptian lived in Rho town in the city of Milan, and contracted the virus from his employer who also (...)
Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi lauded on Monday the Chinese success in containing coronavirus in a telephone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday afternoon, the Egyptian presidency said.
El-Sisi expressed to Xi his aspiration to (...)
Egypt's interior ministry dismissed on Monday a statement published by “a fake Facebook page attributed to the ministry'' claiming that a curfew will be imposed starting Monday as a precautionary measure against the coronavirus.
“Such rumors aim to (...)
