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Egypt Reports First 3 Cases of Omicron

An employee sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure amid the coronavirus disease pandemic in front of Egyptian national flag at the State Council headquarters in Giza, Egypt October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
An employee sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure amid the coronavirus disease pandemic in front of Egyptian national flag at the State Council headquarters in Giza, Egypt October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
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Egypt Reports First 3 Cases of Omicron

An employee sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure amid the coronavirus disease pandemic in front of Egyptian national flag at the State Council headquarters in Giza, Egypt October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
An employee sprays disinfectant as a precautionary measure amid the coronavirus disease pandemic in front of Egyptian national flag at the State Council headquarters in Giza, Egypt October 19, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

Egypt reported its first three cases of the new coronavirus variant Omicron, the Health Ministry said in a statement on Friday.

"Two cases are not showing any symptoms, while the third suffers mild symptoms," the Ministry said.

Last month, Egypt suspended direct flights from and to southern Africa after the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the new Covid-19 variant to be "of concern."

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry said that 901 new coronavirus cases were detected in the past 24 hours, upping the total number of confirmed infections in Egypt since the beginning of the outbreak to 372,599.

In a statement, spokesman for the Health Ministry Hossam Abdel Ghafar said 31 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 21,234.

As many as 695 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 310,049, the spokesman said.

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Syrians Protest to Demand Answers about Loved Ones Who Disappeared under Assad’s Rule

Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
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Syrians Protest to Demand Answers about Loved Ones Who Disappeared under Assad’s Rule

Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)
Wafaa Mustafa, center, holds a picture of her missing father during a demonstration in Damascus, Syria, Friday, Dec. 2024. (AP)

Dozens of relatives of missing Syrians gathered Friday in Damascus to demand answers about the fate of their loved ones, as many Syrians have been missing for years, some disappearing after being detained by the now-toppled government of Bashar al-Assad.

The gathering comes nearly three weeks after the opposition freed dozens of people from Syrian prisons following the fall of Assad’s government. Since then, no additional detainees have been found, leaving thousands of families still in anguish over the fate of their missing relatives.

Relatives have been traveling across Syria in search of information.

“We accept nothing less than knowing all details related to what happened to them,” said Wafa Mustafa, whose father, Ali Mustafa, has been missing for over a decade.

“Who is responsible for their detention? Who tortured them? If they were killed, who killed them? Where were they buried?” Mustafa said, speaking at the gathering held at Al-Hijaz Station in Damascus.

In 2023, the United Nations established an independent body to investigate the fate of more than 130,000 people missing during the Syrian conflict.

Marah Allawi, whose son Huzaifa was detained in 2012 at the age of 18, said she saw “how they tortured young men, how they put them in cages and tortured them.”

She called on the international community to act. “I call on the whole world to know where our sons are.”