Egypt Independent The Supreme Committee for the Management of the Epidemiology and Pandemic Health Crisis in Egypt agreed on Sunday to ease several of the COVID-19 restrictions during Ramadan. The decision allows the opening of mosque’s event halls, performing the lesson of al-Asr, the Taraweeh prayers in major mosques and …
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Ahram Online Egypt reimposed a set of COVID-19 travel restrictions at airports, seaports and land crossings following a significant surge in Omicron infections. “Starting 22 January, Egyptian and foreign travellers to Egypt, except children below the age of 12, will require certificates of COVID-19 vaccination or negative results of COVID-19 …
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Egypt Today “Unprecedented technologies will be used at the forum to limit the spread of COVID-19”, the World Youth Forum (WYF) organisers announced on Friday, ahead of the forum’s launch on 10 January. “The new technologies include robots distributing hand sanitisers, sterilise hallways and measure the temperatures of participants”, the …
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Egypt Independent The Coptic Orthodox Church in Egypt announced on Wednesday, “limiting attendance of all Christmas celebrations, due to rise in COVID-19 infections”. “Due to the continued spread of COVID-19 and its new mutations. We, in the Coptic Church, will limit the celebration and the prayers of the Divine Liturgy …
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Ahram Online “Egypt received 1.27 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from Spain via the COVAX initiative”, the Spanish embassy in Cairo announced on Thursday. The embassy said, “the shipment comes as part of a COVID-19 vaccine grant, which was announced by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez in his …
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Egypt Today The Sultanate of Oman has banned the entry of travellers coming from Egypt until further notice, in the light of measures taken by the Sultanate against the coronavirus Pandemic. EgyptAir announced on Wednesday that travellers from Egypt will be banned from entering the Sultanate as of 9:00 A.M. …
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Ahram Online “Egypt will receive 3.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccines in May”, Minister of Health Hala Zayed said on Wednesday. “These include 1.7 million shots under the COVAX agreement, scheduled to arrive next week. One million Chinese Sinopharm jabs are set to arrive over two shipments by late May …
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