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Govt Releases Statement to Quash Rumours over 2nd Week of Nov.


Fri 15 Nov 2019 | 03:05 PM
Ahmed Moamar

Dr. Mustafa Madbouli, Prime Minister, has tasked agencies of the government to follow the controversial issued stirred via social media and news websites over the second week of November.

The premier also asked the concerned people to monitor reactions of those rumors and analyze them.

He stressed that government bodies should submit truths to the people.

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The Information Office in the cabinet registered dozens of rumors in the digital space over the seven past days

Rumors were traded over the Internet such as rising rent of housing units of the poor in Cairo Governorate.

Some people claimed that government is about to abolish gradually free education in the public schools during the near future.

Other rumors propagated  throughout the web  claimed that the state-run  non- qualified hospitals will be sold as they couldn’t join the new system of health insurance.

The government denied putting off applying the new health insurance system in Luxor Governorate, some 800 km south to Cairo, due to declining services in the public hospitals there.

Another rumors were traded like trading expired of drugs of diabetes and increasing term of tasking the newly graduated doctors.

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The Information Office in the cabinet denied the existence of insects bearing pathogens coming through the southern border line with Sudan.

The office assured that no contaminated with viruses blood sachets have entered the country.

In the same line, the experts of the Information office pointed out that what was said about installing concrete blocks around the New Administrative Capital is false.

They went on to say that there are no any blocks of that kind at all.

Government sources unveiled that there is no intention to privatize factories across the country.

Rumor- mongers also pretended that a slick of oil has polluted the Nile River next Aswan city, about 1000 km south of Cairo.

Egypt did not export any carrion chicken over the past months.

No company in Egypt has imported invalid rice contradicting the international standards.

Government agencies urge people not to trust rumor-mongers anymore.