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Monday, 5 October 2020

How schools will handle covid-19 outbreaks leads coverage on Egypt’s talk shows

The Education Ministry’s new policies to handle any covid-19 outbreaks in schools led the conversation on the airwaves last night, with Al Hayah Al Youm’s Mohamed Sherdy (watch, runtime: 3:30) and Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary (watch, runtime: 14:00) taking note. We have the details in What We’re Tracking Today, above.

A meeting today between Libyan officials in Cairo ahead of upcoming peace talks in Geneva was also on Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi’s radar. The Libyan delegations are set to meet with US ambassador Jonathan Cohen (watch, runtime: 2:27).

Tuition fee exemptions for children of pensioners, martyrs, and others: The government is waiving EGP 1.2 bn-worth of tuition fees at public schools for the children of martyrs from the 25 January revolution and pensioners, Education Minister Tarek Shawki told Kelma Akhira’s Lamees El Hadidi (watch: runtime: 4:58). The Social Solidarity Ministry is also dishing out another EGP 320 mn to cover tuition fees for 1 mn students who do not meet the conditions of the Takaful and Karama program, Minister Nevine El Kabbaj told Lamees (watch, runtime: 18:28).

Egypt has begun manufacturing plasma derivatives for the first time as part of its covid-19 treatment plan with the help of a “major” international company, presidential advisor for health affairs Mohamed Awad Tag Eldin told Ala Mas’ouleety’s Ahmed Moussa. We could soon move to export the plasma, Tag Eldin suggested (watch, runtime: 21:42).

Some 420k prepaid water meters have been installed in buildings across the country, with another 60k set to be installed soon, Holding Company for Drinking Water and Sewage head Mamdouh Raslan told Masaa DMC’s Eman El Hosary. Raslan also noted that the company has contracted e-payments player Fawry, among others, to allow citizens to top up their meters from their points of sale (watch, runtime: 5:32).

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