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Government Issues New COVID-19 Reopening Decisions


Mon 14 Sep 2020 | 05:29 PM
Hassan El-Khawaga

The higher committee on managing the coronavirus crisis, headed by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli, announced on Monday a raft of new decisions related to the reopening measures, set to be implemented as of September 21.

The committee agreed to hold funerals at the mosques, which only have open spaces, the Cabinet's spokesman Nader Saad said.

Weddings will be only held at open areas at the hotel and tourist facilities that obtained health safety certificates at a maximum of 300 people as well as meetings and conferences with an attendance rate of 50% and a maximum of 150 people.

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Cultural exhibitions, including Alexandria International Book Fair, will be held at open areas with an attendance rate not exceeding 50% along with implementing anti-coronavirus measures.

During the video-conference meeting, the government agreed to hold the "Welcome Schools" exhibition on September 20 at Cairo International Fair in addition to reopening the literacy classes.

The committee agreed on the resumption of the football second class training and opening kindergarten at the clubs and youth centers.

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Meanwhile, Health Minister Hala Zayed, who attended the meeting, pointed to a decline in the daily coronavirus cases in the period from September 5 to 11, saying the occupancy rate of the beds at the isolation hospitals (21 hospitals) reached 14% and 47% for the ICU beds.

Zayed mentioned that the plan to prepare for a potential second wave of COVID-19 consists of four pillars; safe health service outlets, offering the medical supplies and pharmaceutics, governance of the health system, and providing vaccines.