Meteorologists predict very hot and humid weather on Sunday during the daytime over Greater Cairo, Lower Egypt, South Sinai, and Upper Egypt, and moderately hot weather along the northern coasts. The weather will be moderate and humid by nightfall over most parts of the country. The increase in humidity will exacerbates the feeling of hot weather by two to four degrees. Active winds are expected on northwestern coasts, South Sinai, and northern Upper Egypt. Waves in the Mediterranean Sea will be moderate to rough, ranging between two and 2.5 meters in height with northwestern surface winds.

July 04, 2021 09:22 UTC

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Saturday inaugurated the third of July Military Base in the Gargoub area on the northwestern coast. It is the latest of series of huge military bases Egypt has opened, namely the Mohamed Naguib Base in al-Alamein, and the Berenice Military Base on the southern borders, in addition to other military bases that have not yet been announced. Egyptian presidential spokesperson Bassam Rady said that the Third of July Military Base is the latest Egyptian military base on the Mediterranean Sea, and is specialized in securing the country within the northern and western strategic direction. The Commander of the Egyptian Naval Forces Vice Admiral Ahmed Khaled on Saturday said this new base send forward a message of peace and development to the region. He highlighted the strategic position of the naval base, which occupies an area of 10 million square meters.

July 03, 2021 15:45 UTC

With the help of its solid features, the HUAWEI Band 6 shows off the capability to change how users perceive a smart band. One such feature is the HUAWEI Band 6’s ability to monitor blood oxygen (SpO2) levels all-day long. This is further complemented by the HUAWEI Band 6’s abilities to track other key health indicators. Another feature that makes it stand out from other smart bands is the display on the HUAWEI Band 6. However, Huawei is no stranger to long battery life on its wearables, a trend seen on the HUAWEI Band 6 as well.

July 03, 2021 15:00 UTC

The Egyptian Environment Ministry on Friday fined Tanzanian oil service boat “MEHR” US$108,000 after it ran aground inside Gabal Elba national park south of the Red Sea, three nautical miles from the shore. A statement from the Ministry said that the boat destroyed an area of coral reefs, causing damage to the marine environment in the area of the accident. Immediately, the Environment Ministry decided to form a technical committee of environmental researchers in the Red Sea Governorate to examine the accident. Investigations found that boat is roughly 41 meters and caused damage to coral reefs at an area of 40 meters and width of three meters. It is also scheduled to conduct another inspection to estimate the size of the losses after the boat was refloated and towed away from the coral reefs area.

July 03, 2021 14:37 UTC

Egyptian Minister of Irrigation and Water Resources, Mohamed Abdel-Ati, said that his country will not accept unilateral action to fill and operate the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), as the UN Security Council convenes within days to discuss the crisis. Abdel-Ati added that negotiations with Ethiopia over GERD have stagnated as a result of Ethiopia’s intransigence. France’s ambassador to the UN, Nicolas de Riviere said that the UN Security Council will likely meet this week to discuss the dispute between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia over the GERD that Ethiopia is building on the Blue Nile. The Arab League has called the Security Council last month to meet to discuss the issue of the dam, and Ethiopia’s plans for the second phase of filling its reservoir this summer, without an agreement with Egypt and Sudan. Ethiopia rejected the position of Egypt and Sudan in referring the issue to the Security Council, and called on the council to encourage the two countries to engage in negotiations led by the African Union, according to the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

July 03, 2021 12:45 UTC





The Egyptian Health and Population Ministry announced Friday that a contract is now underway with a new company to locally manufacture COVID-19 vaccines in Egypt. According to the ministry’s statement, the Egyptian Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (​VACSERA) will be a strong arm for Egypt to achieve self-sufficiency in vaccine production. The Egyptian Health and Population Ministry said on Wednesday that starting from August, 15 million doses of the Sinovac-VACSERA vaccine will be produced locally per month. The ministry noted that it aims to manufacture 40 million doses of the vaccine by the end of this year. Egypt’s Health Ministry on Friday confirmed 198 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total confirmed cases up to 281,722.

July 03, 2021 11:48 UTC

CAIRO - 3 July 2020: The Health Ministry said Friday night that 198 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 281,772. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 21 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,215. Naeema Al-Gasseer, the representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt congratulated Egypt for locally producing the first batch of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine. Zayed said Sinovac has approved the possibility that Egypt produces 80 million doses of its coronavirus vaccine per six months. Starting August, 10-15 million Egypt-made vaccine doses will be available per month to vaccinate 40 million citizens by the end of the year, Zayed said.

July 03, 2021 10:41 UTC

Egyptian police have arrested a male nurse in a private hospital in Giza Governorate for sexually abusing a woman admitted to the hospital. Talbiyah Police Department received a complaint from a woman who said that she went to a private hospital to receive treatment for her shortness of breath, only to have been met with a male nurse who began touching her private areas. The patient’s family accused the nurse working in the hospital of sexually harassing the woman while she was in intensive care. On June 4, 2014, a new law was passed which criminalizes sexual harassment for the first time in modern Egyptian history. The Egyptian House of Representatives is currently discussing more tough penalties against crimes of molesting others and sexual harassment.

July 03, 2021 09:56 UTC

He said the muscle atrophy treatment costs up to $3 million per child and Egypt is determined to secure it although many other countries cannot afford it. Attending the event, Zayed said 204 muscle atrophy cases have been detected in Egypt, of which more than 32 can be treated. Egypt will start treating the muscle atrophy cases starting next week, Zayed noted. The ministry said that the drug used to treat cases of muscular atrophy is of high cost, and will be provided for treatment in Egypt. The complaints system of the government has recorded complaints of muscular atrophy patients, which prompted the authority to work as hard as possible in order to meet their demand.

July 03, 2021 09:00 UTC

ROME: New manager Jose Mourinho began work at Roma on Friday promising to restore long-term prosperity after the Serie A club came 29 points behind champions Inter Milan in seventh last season. "We want to make a Roma of success, but a future of success – not an isolated moment of success ... we want to do something sustainable," he told the club website. Asked what had changed since he led Inter to two league titles in 2009 and 2010 and a Champions League win in 2010, Mourinho pointed at his record around Europe. "With so many experiences, and learning in the good moments and the bad moments, I am much more prepared now than I was." "Hopefully that success arrives with me, because the contract is a three-year contract – or, the first contract is, maybe there will be a second one day.

July 02, 2021 20:03 UTC

On Tuesday, they will take on either Italy or Belgium at London's Wembley Stadium and it is highly unlikely they will get away with the kind of sloppy, ineffective football they played against the Swiss if they are to make the final. Once again they dominated possession on Friday and attempted a staggering 1,008 passes, completing 902 of them - however, their problem was that very few of them posed any sort of threat to the Swiss defence. For all their possession they were surprisingly sloppy at times, needlessly surrendering the ball in dangerous positions that the Swiss were happy to exploit, not least when Sergio Busquets lost the ball in the lead-up to their equaliser. The only thing more ineffective than Spain's passing was their finishing: of a whopping 27 chances in the game, nine were blocked and 10 were on target and though Swiss keeper Yann Sommer was superb, many did not trouble him too much. Luis Enrique now has four days to work out what he wants his team to be, because this toothless "tiki-taka" passing throwback may not cut it at the semi-final stage.

July 02, 2021 19:41 UTC

Egypt’s Sherif El Hotabiy will officially release the English language version first novel, titled “The Merchant”, at the 52nd Cairo International Book Fair, which is taking place from June 30 to July 15. The novel was initially released in May 2021 by ElSaid Publishing House on a number of digital platforms. Hotabiy expressed his gratitude and excitement to be participating in the book fair, which is the largest of its kind in the Middle East. Hotabiy was inspired to write the novel after watching a documentary about Zhen Hu and envisioned him as the perfect main character for the book. Hotabiy later began to write in Arabic and write poetry in English.

July 02, 2021 17:03 UTC

The National Authority for Tunnels will receive from China the first trains that will operate on the al-Salam/New Administrative Capital/Tenth of Ramadan City electric train project at the end of July. The 22 trains that will operate on the line are arriving in conjunction with the final stages of the construction process of the project. The 103-km-long electric train project will be managed by the French RATP company for 15 years. The electric train project will connect passengers with the Cairo Metro’s third line at the Adly Mansour metro station. It will also meet the Administrative Capital’s monorail at the Administrative Capital Station 2, and connect with the al-Alamein/Ain Sokhna Express Electric Train, which will intersect the Administrative Capital.

July 02, 2021 15:45 UTC

On Friday morning, the first EgyptAir flight to Dusseldorf Airport took off from Cairo International Airport. Flight number MS733 left for the German city with passengers aboard EgyptAir’s latest A320 NEO aircraft, which has a capacity of 142 seats, an EgyptAir statement said. EgyptAir was keen to receive the flight passengers and take souvenir photos with them, and the company upgraded the first passenger at the counter to business class. It also offered a 10 percent discount at duty-free shops on many of its products for the flight passengers. EgyptAir operates flights to Germany through three major points: Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt.

July 02, 2021 13:52 UTC

CAIRO – 2 July 2021: A train collided on Friday into a pickup truck that was passing a level crossing in Qena, Upper Egypt, causing the death of a 46-year-old man, reports said. The body was moved to the mortuary of the Qena General Hospital and the Public Prosecution was informed to proceed with investigations. Egypt has witnessed numerous train collisions over the past few months that left dozens of deaths. Egypt is planning to develop its railway system through installing safety measures and developing or replacing obsolete rail cars.

July 02, 2021 12:06 UTC