Hala Zayed said that bed occupancy rates in hospital quarantine wards are also declining.
She said that along with the World Health Organization, “we are currently documenting the public health initiatives undertaken by Egypt.”
Egypt’s public health programs, such as the 100 Million Health Initiative, a hepatitis C campaign, a women’s campaign, and the waiting list program under which 800 surgeries were performed, were major factors behind the successful fight against COVID-19.
Zayed said that the virus helped the health sector make a 10-year leap in terms of science, perseverance and finding solutions.
She urged people to follow precautionary measures, get vaccinated, and choose open places when going out in order to reduce infection rates.
DUBAI: Emirati property tycoon Hussain Sajwani has made a 935.4 million dirham ($255 million) offer to buy out minority shareholders in DAMAC Properties, which he has run for nearly two decades. The all cash offer for DAMAC comes amid a years-long slump in Dubai’s once hot property market, which has been exacerbated by the pandemic that hit the local economy hard last year.
LONDON: An annual survey by regulator Ofcom found that UK adults spent an average of three hours and 47 minutes online each day during the pandemic. The annual report examined what people are doing online, how they are served by online content providers and platforms, and their experiences of using the internet. Online shopping and food and drink sales rose by 48 percent to
LONDON: An Iran expert on Wednesday warned that none of the candidates in the country’s presidential election on June 18 offer a route out of its many crises.
Nazila Fathi, an independent journalist and non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, was speaking at an event hosted by Chatham House titled “Iran’s presidential election: Domestic and international implications” and attended by Arab News.
“Coronavirus has really wreaked havoc in Iran. The death tolls are huge. While it’s true that the country started vaccines before the elections, no one knows what shots they’ll get, what the plan is, and how the majority of people under 50 are going to get vaccinated,” she said. “People are traveling out of the country for huge prices to get vaccinated.”