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  • Cabinet: No increase in price of metro tickets

    Date: 2019-12-20 10:03:31 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:13 - ID:8237249

    CAIRO, Dec 20 (MENA) - The cabinet denied reports circulated in social media about increasing the price of metro tickets. In a statement on Friday, the cabinet media center said it contacted the Ministry of Transport which categorically refuted ....

  • Cabinet denies reports on detecting swine flu cases among school students

    Date: 2019-12-20 09:23:52 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:8 - ID:8237149

    CAIRO, Dec 20 (MENA) - The cabinet denied news circulated in media claiming that swine flu cases have been detected among school students. In a statement on Friday, the cabinet media center said it contacted the Health Ministry which dismissed ....

  • Health ministry denies having H1N1 infections at 2 schools

    Date: 2019-12-19 23:00:08 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:71 - ID:8236668

    CAIRO, Dec 19 (MENA) – The Ministry of Health has denied claims of detecting two H1N1 cases at two schools in Cairo. The two reported cases were of a kind of common seasonal flu, Heath Ministry’s spokesman Khaled Megahed said. Acting upon ....

  • Foreign Ministry appeals to Egyptians heading to Saudi Arabia to get anti-meningitis vaccine

    Date: 2019-12-19 15:07:24 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:46 - ID:8236496

    CAIRO, Dec 19 (MENA) - Assistant Foreign Minister for Consular Affairs and Egyptian Expatriates Yasser Hashim has appealed to Egyptian adults and children above 2 years of age who travel to Saudi Arabia to get the anti-meningitis vaccine. In ....

  • 12 people killed in road accident in Monufia

    Date: 2019-12-18 08:47:51 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:11 - ID:8234396

    SHEBIN EL KOM, Egypt, Dec 18 (MENA) - Twelve people were killed and one was wounded in a collision between a pickup truck carrying workers and a lorry on the Shebin el Kom/El Sadat highway in the green zone in Monufia governorate. The municipal ....

  • Interior ministry transfers 20 inmates to prisons near their residence

    Date: 2019-12-17 15:29:59 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:60 - ID:8233656

    CAIRO, Dec 17 (MENA) - The Interior Ministry has approved a request by 20 inmates to be moved to jails near the homes of their families. The decision comes as part of the ministry's efforts to provide all possible support for prisoners and to ....

  • Initiative launched in Luxor to teach persons with special needs handicraft making

    Date: 2019-12-17 14:10:35 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:50 - ID:8233326

    LUXOR, Upper Egypt, Dec 17 (MENA) - An initiative aimed at teaching persons with special needs making handicrafts was launched on Tuesday in Luxor governorate. The initiative, titled Hayat "Life", was launched by a number of individuals concerned ....

  • 1st electric-powered bus hit Cairo streets

    Date: 2019-12-17 12:51:02 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:38 - ID:8233181

    CAIRO, Dec 17 (MENA) - Local Development Minister Mahmoud Shaarawi and Cairo Governor Khalid Abdel Aal launched on Tuesday the first electric powered bus within the framework of the government's plan to upgrade transportation. Abdel Aal said that ....

  • New educational system applied to three million students -- Official

    Date: 2019-12-17 10:32:10 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:20 - ID:8233122

    SHRAM EL SHEIKH, Egypt, Dec 17 (MENA) - Assistant Education Minister Ahmed Daher on Tuesday said that his ministry has achieved progress regarding the application of the new educational system nationwide. In statements to MENA on the sidelines of ....

  • PM issues decision to form joint customs inspection committees

    Date: 2019-12-16 17:04:23 GMT - Egypt - Local - SN:66 - ID:8232362

    CAIRO, Dec 16 (MENA) – Prime Minister Mostafa Madoubli has issued a decision on the establishment of one or more permanent joint committees at every customs port to carry out inspection. The committees shall have one representative or more from ....

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