EU's Aviation Safety Agency classifies Egyptian airports as safe

CAIRO - 16 June 2020: The European Union's Aviation Safety Agency has classified all the Egyptian airports as completely safe, and placed the country's airports on a list of the international airports that have taken the necessary measures to combat the emerging coronavirus.

The list was developed to achieve an additional level of protection for passengers and aircrew staff, which is mainly based on information from the World Health Organization, the European Center for Disease Prevention, and several prestigious health centers.

Information from these organizations is based on data collected and categorized according to several criteria that include the total number of cases infected with coronavirus, the number of recoveries, the number of routine infections, the number of tests, the number of deaths and the condition in the cities compared to rural areas.

Egypt closed off tourism in March due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic but decided to gradually reopen as of July 2020.