In an effort to urge citizens to get vaccinated and help them register for the vaccine, a 10-day campaign was recently launched by the Ministry of Health. The mobile campaign, which tours the various governorates on buses, is an effort to expand the (...)
Plenty of yellow billboards carrying the message "The treatment is within you" can be seen around Cairo these days. The same message is also being delivered in TV ads. Both are part of a campaign launched by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi to (...)
Unvaccinated employees in the education sector — including all public and private universities and schools — and students aged 18+, must be vaccinated against Covid-19 before the new academic year begins next month, according to directives by (...)
A total of 243,000 12th grade high school students are applying this week for places in public universities through the Office of Admission to Public Universities (Tanseeq).
Scoring a minimum of 62.7 per cent for the science section and 58 per cent (...)
Law14/2021, which amends articles of the 58/1937 Penal Law to increase the penalties for sexual harassment, was ratified by President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi on 18 August.
The changes, passed in July by the House of Representatives, stiffen the (...)
Thanaweya Amma, or 12th grade high school results were announced on Tuesday, far below the average of past years, reports Reem Leila.
Parents and students anxiously await the results of the Thanaweya Amma, a series of standardised tests that serve (...)
Daily rates of Covid-19 infections are creeping up. They reached their lowest levels in March, when an average of 31 infections and four deaths were recorded. On Monday the figure had increased to 106 infections and six deaths, and the Ministry of (...)
On 9 August, the first batch of the US Johnson & Johnson's Janssen (JNJ.N) Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Cairo. The 261,600 doses received will be distributed between 126 vaccination centres, with priority given to people travelling abroad.
Khaled (...)
The Ministry of Health and Population is receiving complaints about the lateness of Covid-19 vaccination messages sent to applicants who have registered for the shots on the ministry's website.
Mohamed Ahmed, 55, a businessman who registered on the (...)
As Eid Al-Adha (Greater Bairam) approaches, millions of Egyptian Muslim are preparing to celebrate with the centuries-long ritual of slaughtering cattle and sheep and distributing their meat among the needy.
The ritual marks the Prophet Abraham's (...)
Last week, President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi instructed the government to bear all the costs of treating children suffering from spinal muscular atrophy (SMA), a genetic neuromuscular disease characterised by weakness and the wasting of the muscles (...)
Parliament's Legislative Committee on 27 June approved a proposal seeking to amend laws that would change the legal status of sexual harassment from a misdemeanour to a felony.
The draft amended some provisions of the penal code promulgated by Law (...)
The Egyptian pharmaceutical company Pharco will begin production of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V before the end of the year. Egypt is also due to begin manufacturing the Chinese Sinovac vaccine locally and is in talks to manufacture the (...)
Grade 12 exams, known as Thanaweya Amma, will be held electronically, but there will also be a printed question paper available for students in order to avoid sudden technical problems that might arise, such as power cuts or problems that could (...)
Making the Covid-19 vaccine at home to cover the needs of Egypt's population and export it to African nations is part of Egypt's strategy to contain the pandemic.
On 21 May, Egypt received 1,400 litres of raw material required for manufacturing the (...)
Mervat Eweis, a mother of two primary school students, breathed a sigh of relief when she heard of the minister of education's decision to end the school year in April. She described the abrupt decision as "wise, the best thing the minister has done (...)
Around 928,000 citizens have registered on the Ministry of Health and Population's Covid-19 vaccine website since registration opened a month ago and a total of 177,000 vaccines have been administered.
"People must register on the site as soon as (...)
More vaccination centres
THE MINISTRY of Health and Population added 98 new vaccination centres across the country to accelerate the administration of the coronavirus shots. The decision comes after the ministry received a flood of complaints over (...)
Twenty-five people were killed and around 25 injured when a 10-storey building collapsed in the East Cairo Gesr Al-Suez district. The structure, believed to be the oldest in the area, collapsed early morning on Saturday 27 March while residents were (...)
President Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi has eased women's worries regarding a controversial draft personal status law. During a ceremony marking Egypt's Mother's Day on 21 March, the president confirmed the importance of supporting and empowering Egyptian (...)
The government is currently in negotiations with China to obtain a licence to manufacture the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine Sinovac locally, Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed announced during a joint press conference on 22 March with China's (...)
More than 400,000 people have registered on the Ministry of Health's Covid-19 vaccination website. Since the vaccination campaign began on 4 March 1,141 people have received their first dose, according to the latest Ministry of Health figures.
"The (...)
The coronavirus pandemic has reshaped the lives of school-aged children across the country. Yara Ahmed, 10, who misses her school, schoolmates, and teachers, said that she "never thought I'd miss school, but I do. It has been hard for me not to see (...)
Egypt on Thursday began its Covid-19 vaccination programme for the elderly and those with chronic illnesses who registered with the Ministry of Health's designated website.
The number of people getting the vaccination on the first day was 1,141, (...)
The first seven surgical operations in Ismailia governorate under the umbrella of the new Universal Health Insurance (UHI) system, from a cesarean delivery to treating a fractured thigh bone, have taken place at the Ismailia Medical Complex.
The (...)
