CAIRO, June 6 (NNN-MENA) – Egypt’s Cairo International Airport received 23 special international flights, carrying Egyptians stranded abroad amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The flights, with a total of 3,346 Egyptians, arrived from Britain, Russia, Germany, Kenya, Tanzania, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Lebanon and others.
The airport also received four domestic flights from the Red Sea resort city of Marsa Alam, after the conclusion of the quarantine period of around 400 Egyptian returnees from abroad, Ahram Online quoted sources at the Cairo International Airport as saying.
Egypt suspended international flights on Mar 19, to curb the spread of COVID-19. Since then, several thousands of Egyptians returned home from across the world, including the United States, Britain, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Turkey, Uganda, Rwanda, Chad and Niger.
Egypt announced its first confirmed COVID-19 case on Feb 14, and the first death from the highly infectious virus on Mar 8, both foreigners.
Until Thursday night, Egypt’s total confirmed cases reached 29,767, including 1,126 deaths and 7,756 recoveries.
Since Mar 25, Egypt has been imposing a nighttime curfew, which varied between nine and 13 hours, to curb the spread of the virus.
The current nine-hour curfew will continue until mid-June, when the government will consider easing relevant restrictions, amid a coexistence plan to maintain anti-coronavirus precautionary measures while resuming economic activities.
The Egyptian government started gradual reopening of services and offices, and allowed reopening of about 100 hotels for local tourists with 50-percent capacity, after they were given official hygiene safety certificates.– NNN-MENA
