Passengers, some of them wearing protective masks, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), arrive at Luxor International Airport, Egypt March 9, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany
CAIRO – 1 May 2020: Two exceptional flights carrying 288 stranded Egyptian citizens from four countries landed in Marsa Alam International Airport, in the southeast of Egypt, as Egypt has worked to repatriate all expatriates who are willing to return amid the coronavirus crisis.
The first flight carrying 152 citizens from both Maldives and Muscat landed on Thursday evening in the airport. The second flight landed on Friday morning carrying 136 nationals from Ethiopia and Kenya.
The flights were operated by Air Cairo airline, which is part-owned by the Egyptian flag carrier EgyptAir.
A trained team from the Quarantine and Preventive Medicine Department followed the required precautionary measures with the passengers, Karim Hesham, deputy head of the health directorate in the Red Sea governorate said.
The passengers’ luggage was sterilized, said Hisham. The medical teams monitored the temperature of each of the passengers, tested them for COVID-19 antibodies and were taken to quarantine hotels to stay there for two weeks.
On April 22nd, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi noted that around 3,500 Egyptians are stranded abroad over coronavirus, affirming that authorities are committed to bringing them back despite "hard circumstances".
أخبار_TeN خدمة إخبارية على مدار الیوم، حيث تطل شاشتنا من خلال عناوين الأخبار على رأس الساعة، متضمنة مجموعة من أحدث عناوین الأخبار، كما تطل الخدمة الإخبارية ...
Egypt recorded Thursday 269 new coronavirus cases and 12 deaths, which raises the total infected patients of COVID-19 to 5,537 and the total deaths to 392, according to health minster’s daily briefing.
Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Megahed added that 46 patients, were discharged from the hospital after being confirmed that they are completely recovered from the virus.
This raises the number of recovered cases to 1,381 out of 1,780 who had been retested for the virus and had received negative results.
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