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Egypt: COVID Cases Continue to Decline

Students sit for university exams in Cairo. EPA file photo
Students sit for university exams in Cairo. EPA file photo
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Egypt: COVID Cases Continue to Decline

Students sit for university exams in Cairo. EPA file photo
Students sit for university exams in Cairo. EPA file photo

Egypt’s students will sit for their high school exams on Saturday amid high precautionary measures, as the number of COVID-19 fatalities continues to decline.

The Health Ministry urged the population on Friday to get vaccinated with the AstraZeneca jab.

“The eligible categories are being expanded and the number of vaccine recipients is increasing as the Ministry obtains more batches of the vaccine,” the statement said, adding that Egypt is one of the first countries in the African continent to start manufacturing the vaccine.

The Ministry confirmed that in the past few weeks, Egypt obtained more than 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, and that 610,000 doses will be sent to vaccine centers early next week, after completing their analysis.

The Ministry also expects to receive quantities of raw materials for the Sinovac vaccine by the end of next week, sufficient to manufacture 3 million doses, in addition to obtaining raw materials sufficient to produce 4.6 million doses by the end of this month.

The Ministry is scheduled to receive more AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines in the coming days, with plans to allocate them for travel purposes.

The statement noted that 2.4 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine are being manufactured locally and will be distributed to vaccination centers by the end of July.

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry said Friday that in the past 24 hours, 155 new coronavirus infections were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 282,737.

Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 19 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,351.

Also, 765 patients were discharged from hospitals after receiving medical care, taking the number of recoveries to 216,982, the spokesman added.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Education said that exams for the secondary certificate will kick off on Saturday in all Egyptian governorates.

The Ministry stressed the importance of preparing isolation rooms for each exam committee to isolate those suspected of being infected with the virus.

It added that people in charge of the exams must wear medical masks and must keep them throughout the exams.

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Kremlin Says It Wants Syria to Swiftly Restore Order after Opposition Attack

Fighters take over the district of Khan al-Assal following fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and opposition forces along with their Turkish-backed allies in the northern Syrian Aleppo province, on November 29, 2024. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)
Fighters take over the district of Khan al-Assal following fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and opposition forces along with their Turkish-backed allies in the northern Syrian Aleppo province, on November 29, 2024. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)
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Kremlin Says It Wants Syria to Swiftly Restore Order after Opposition Attack

Fighters take over the district of Khan al-Assal following fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and opposition forces along with their Turkish-backed allies in the northern Syrian Aleppo province, on November 29, 2024. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)
Fighters take over the district of Khan al-Assal following fierce fighting between Syrian government forces and opposition forces along with their Turkish-backed allies in the northern Syrian Aleppo province, on November 29, 2024. (Photo by Aaref WATAD / AFP)

The Kremlin said on Friday it wanted the Syrian government to restore constitutional order in the Aleppo region as soon as possible after an insurgent offensive there that captured territory for the first time in years.
Russia, a staunch ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, intervened militarily on Assad's side against insurgents in 2015 in its biggest foray in the Middle East since the Soviet Union's collapse, and maintains an airbase and naval facility in Syria.
Opposition led Hayat Tahrir al-Sham group launched an incursion on Wednesday into a dozen towns and villages in the northwestern province of Aleppo, which is controlled by Assad's forces.
It was the first such territorial advance since March 2020 when Russia and Türkiye, which supports the opposition, agreed to a ceasefire that led to the halting of military action in Syria's last major opposition stronghold in the northwest.
Russian and Syrian warplanes bombed an opposition-held area near the border with Türkiye on Thursday to try to push back the insurgents, Syrian army and opposition sources said.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow regarded the attack as a violation of Syria's sovereignty and wanted the authorities to act fast to regain control.
"As for the situation around Aleppo, it is an attack on Syrian sovereignty and we are in favor of the Syrian authorities bringing order to the area and restoring constitutional order as soon as possible," said Peskov.
Asked about unconfirmed Russian Telegram reports that Assad had flown into Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Peskov said he had "nothing to say" on the matter.