Sisi Urges Ministers to Boost Ties with Int'l Economic, Financial Institutions

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met Sunday with Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly and Minister of International Cooperation Rania Al-Mashat and discussed mechanisms of boosting relations with international and regional economic and financial institutions, according to Presidency Affairs Spokesperson Bassam Rady.

During the meeting, President Sisi was briefed about the strategy of the Ministry of International Cooperation in coordination with partners and various international financial institutions, within the framework of the country's economic and development endeavors.

In this regard, the president called for strengthening the cooperation relations with international and regional economic and financial cooperation institutions, in parallel with the commitment to external borrowing controls.

On her part, the Minister of International Cooperation briefed the attendees about the most prominent axes of interaction with development partners.

Mashat also presented the Ministry's efforts to mobilize the necessary funds and various forms of support from development partners to meet the medical needs required to deal with the novel coronavirus pandemic, as well as to mitigate the social and economic impact of the pandemic.

Sisi: Establishing Medical Warehouse Needed

Egypt registered on Saturday 1,324 new coronavirus cases, bringing the total cases to 74,035 since the beginning of the virus outbreak.

“Seventy-nine more deaths were confirmed; raising the total number to 3,280,” Khaled Megahed, the Health Ministry’s spokesman, said in a statement.

“Up to 20,103 coronavirus patients have recovered so far,” the spokesman said.

“As many as 413 Egyptians were among the recovered patients,” he added.

“In this context, the president called for the acceleration of the process of establishing strategic warehouses for medical storage in order to ensure the availability of a strategic reserve to cover the needs of current and future consumption of medical supplies and medicine on all levels whether through domestic or external production,” the Rady noted.

Moreover, Sisi urged concerned officials to continue working on that project in parallel with the efforts of the UMPA to counter any urgent consequences in this regard.