{"id":70943,"date":"2020-04-20T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70943"},"modified":"2020-04-20T16:23:41","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T08:23:41","slug":"more-than-200-egyptians-in-malaysia-waiting-to-go-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=70943","title":{"rendered":"More than 200 Egyptians in Malaysia waiting to go home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FW756213_KL29_300818_DISCUSSION_MOU_BN201808276680-mpr-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21656\" srcset=\"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FW756213_KL29_300818_DISCUSSION_MOU_BN201808276680-mpr-1024x683.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FW756213_KL29_300818_DISCUSSION_MOU_BN201808276680-mpr-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FW756213_KL29_300818_DISCUSSION_MOU_BN201808276680-mpr-768x512.jpg 768w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FW756213_KL29_300818_DISCUSSION_MOU_BN201808276680-mpr-555x370.jpg 555w, http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/FW756213_KL29_300818_DISCUSSION_MOU_BN201808276680-mpr-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>File photo of  Egypt&#8217;s Ambassador Gamal Abdelrehim Metwally (second, left) having a light moment with former Chief Executive Officer of Malaysian National News Agency (BERNAMA) Datuk Zulkefli Salleh (right). Photo courtesy of BERNAMA<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h5>By Muammar Eusouffi Zainol Abidin<br><\/h5>\n\n\n\n<p>KUALA LUMPUR, April 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; A total of 232 Egyptians, comprising 114 tourists, 22 seeking medical treatment, and 96 students, are stranded in Malaysia due to the travel suspension imposed by the two countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Egypt\u2019s ambassador to Malaysia Gamal Abdelrehim Metwally said arrangements are being made with the government of Egypt to get a flight that will take them home as well as getting a centre ready for&nbsp; their 14-day quarantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cSome of those who are stranded are being placed at hotels while some are staying at their homes,\u201d he told Bernama, Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In another development, the the ambassador said the mission has contacted the Egyptian citizens in the country since the imposition of the Movement Control Order (MCO) to advise them to obey the orders given by the authorities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also said the Malaysian government has always been understanding and cooperative in aiding the stranded Egyptians due to good ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;NNN-BERNAMA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Muammar Eusouffi Zainol Abidin KUALA LUMPUR, April 20 (NNN-BERNAMA) &#8212; A total of 232 Egyptians, comprising 114 tourists, 22 seeking medical treatment, and 96 students, are stranded in Malaysia due to the travel suspension imposed by the two countries as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Egypt\u2019s ambassador to Malaysia Gamal Abdelrehim Metwally said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":70947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[288,318,217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70943"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}