Engineer Mohsen Salah, President of the ‘Arab Contractors’ Company, stated that since the beginning of the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) outbreak, the company has taken all precautionary measures to ensure the safety and protection of its workers who serve in its giant projects domestically.
The measures also include workers working abroad through cooperation with the cabinet, ministries of Foreign Affairs and Civil Aviation as well as the national airlines.
In an official statement released by the company, Engineer Salah said that the ‘Arab Contractors’ has taken the necessary measures to bring back home its workers who serve at the company projects abroad especially in Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon and Ethiopia.
“The Arab Contractors has also facilitated the return of a number of the Egyptians stranded in those countries on its rented flights, and transfer, in the same trips, a number of the stranded African people to their countries,” the statement read.
Engineer Salah noted that the last of those trips were arriving from UAE and Kuwait, where lockdowns take place and hinders the work for now under the spread of coronavirus.
He added that the company has been in charge of the arrangements of the trips and setting the hotel accommodations for its workers for 14 days, the period of isolation defined earlier by the ministry of health for all Egyptians arriving back home.
Salah Highlights Presidential Instructions
Engineer Salah pointed out to the presidential instructions by President Abdel Fattah El Sisi in terms of protecting Egyptian workers inside and outside the country, and that their safety is priceless, adding that “those are the real capital of the Arab Contractors.”
On another hand, Ambassador Tariq Al-Quni, the Egyptian ambassador to Kuwait, said that a flight operated by Air Cairo Company of the Ministry of Civil Aviation, took off from Kuwait with stranded Egyptians on board.
The ambassador noted that out of 144 Egyptian passengers, the most were employees of the Arab Contractors Company who were working in mega projects there in the State of Kuwait.
He added that all the passengers were to be examined by the health teams at the airport, and they will be transferred to the isolation areas designated by the Egyptian state to spend 14 days in quarantine.
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