Covid-19 is — unsurprisingly — once again making an appearance in the foreign press: This morning it’s Foreign Policy, which has a particularly ominous prognosis on how Egypt may handle a full-blown outbreak. Of all the countries in the Middle East “Egypt is the most worrisome in a coronavirus crisis,” Steven Cook writes, noting Cairo’s densely populated conurbations, the country’s “fragile” public healthcare system (and the private sector’s poor positioning to plug the gaps), and the broad distrust of government policy among Egyptian citizens.

Also getting attention in the foreign press:

• Interim GERD agreement to resolve deadlock? Egypt, Ethiopia and Sudan should establish an interim GERD agreement spanning the first two years of filling the dam’s reservoir, to allow time for the more protracted negotiations needed to reach a comprehensive settlement, International Crisis Group argues.
• Human Rights Watch has called for conditional releases of “unfairly detained” inmates in Egypt to prevent an outbreak of covid-19 in overcrowded prisons.
• Egypt’s reopening of the 4,700-year-old Djoser pyramid in Saqqara could hardly have come at a worse time, with tourist numbers at a low thanks to the covid-19 pandemic, Al Monitor reports.