Egypt’s President urges continuing national efforts to face economic challenges amid coronavirus crisis

CAIRO – 9 July 2020: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi on Thursday urged continuing national efforts to counter economic challenges as a consequence for the spread of the novel coronavirus, in a meeting with ministers, the Egyptian Presidency said in a statement.

Meeting with Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouli, Supply Minister Ali Al-Moselhi, Planning Minister Hala Al-Saeed, Finance Minister Mohamed Maeet, Social Solidarity Minister Nevin Al-Qabbaj, and Industry Minister Nevin Game’, Sisi urged providing strategic products, including food and medical supplies, and working on creating more job opportunities for laborers.

The meeting discussed the effect of the coronavirus spread on economic indicators, including local consumption rate and the sectors of communication, tourism, health and medical care.

The meeting also shed light on the effect of the novel virus on domestic and foreign tourism, in light of the preventive measures and temporary closure procedures taken by many countries.

The President also discussed the “Children Without Shelter” initiative launched by the Tahya Misr Fund, a donation-based national fund, and the Social Solidarity Ministry. He urged providing further fund to the program.

The “Children Without Shelter” initiative aims at rehabilitating homeless children and involving them in society, within a social and educational framework, especially the governorates with the highest population density.

Egypt recorded, Wednesday, 1,025 new coronavirus cases, upping the total number of confirmed cases to 78,304.

In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 75 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 3,564.

As many as 523 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 22,241 so far, the spokesman said.