Monday, 1 February, 2021 - 06:45 Image used for illustrative purpose. A bank employee counts stacks of Egyptian 5 pound and 50 piastre notes as he works at Bank Misr in downtown Cairo, Egypt, on June 8, 2016. Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh Cairo - Asharq Al-Awsat Egypt’s current account deficit widened to USD2.8 billion in the July-September quarter from USD1.4 billion in the same quarter of 2019, as the coronavirus pandemic caused tourism revenues to collapse and foreign investment in oil and gas fell. Revenues from tourism plunged to USD0.8 billion in July-September from USD4.2 billion a year earlier, the central bank said. Overall revenues from tourism plunged almost 70 percent in 2020, the tourism ministry said earlier this month.