Another monthly post as part of the COVID-19 coverage in Egyptian Chronicles.
This time it is a quick look into COVID-19 numbers in Egypt after eleven months since its arrival to the country in February 2020.
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| A photo from an Egyptian hospital during the pandemic "Ahmed Gomaa" |
They are all based on official numbers released by the Egyptian Health Ministry.
Click on the tabs to move to each graph.
This is the time of our monthly post about the coronavirus pandemic and its numbers in graphs.
Needless to say, December 2020 witnessed a leap in the cases of coronavirus as well as its fatalities and recoveries.
In December 2020, we did not have only an official recognition that we are in the second wave of coronavirus.
The New Year’s Eve celebrations were cancelled. More restrictions were issued once again above them reducing the Not-wearing-the-face-mask in public from LE 4,000 to LE 50 to make it more realistic.
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| Egyptians wearing masks in a metro station in Cairo "Reuters" |
Schools are back to be online and more companies are back to work from home or rotation system to reduce work in closed offices.
If you live in Egypt, you will know that as you will find someone in your circle or family’s circle or friend’s circle who tested positive for coronavirus.
The official numbers increased from 400s in December’s first week to 1,400s in the last two days of the month.
This post should have been on the blog hours earlier but thanks to what happened on the Capitol earlier on Wednesday, it is published early 7th January morning.
Merry Christmas to all dear Orthodox Christians especially Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Christians celebrating the Christmas on the eve of 7th January.
On this occasion, I would like to share a photo of Saints Constantine and Helena Church in Downtown Cairo.
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| Saints Constantine and Helena Church |
Inaugurated in 1913 by the Greek Community in Cairo, Saints Constantine and Helena Church is a Greek Orthodox Church.
It was renovated two years ago.
I attended a wedding inside it in 2007 and it is so beautiful from inside.
Happy New year, this is the first Kodak Agfa post in the year 2021
This is one of the best Kodak Agfa’s photographic moments in 2020.
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| The Golden hour aka a late August sunset |
The golden hour in Marina Alamein in late August.
For the first time, I managed to photograph the amazing golden hour in a perfect moment.
First of all happy new, this is the first post in 2021.
A new year where we hope that will witness inshallah some sort of an end to this awful pandemic that is still paralyzing the world.
Hopefully, most of us will get the vaccines inshallah and hopefully, the virus won’t mutate again.
I hope that the world will heal its wounds in 2021 inshallah.
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| Egypt's celebration of the new year at Rod El-Farg bridge "EPA" |
Now back to our 15-days-post with our daily coronavirus news from Egypt and the Arab world.
I must hint out that the Egyptian government is bracing for tougher coronavirus days in the country in January. I expect more cases in the upcoming two weeks because it seems that people celebrated the New Year's Eve regardless of the government's decision banning any celebrations.
Personally, I hear more cases every day in my circle.
Anyhow here is our daily live updates from Egypt and the Arab world
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Happy New Year 2021 from Egyptian Chronicles to all its readers and friends around the globe :)
May all your dreams come true in the new year :)))
Welcome to the 2020 edition of Egyptian Chronicles' Movers and Shakers.
Here is my list of those I believe that have been the shakers and movers of 2020.
I started writing down this post at 2:44 PM, yet once again my epic procrastination and being burned out for the year rules.
It is not procrastination, more than it is being burned out between work and anxiety this year.
I guess this year one must be thankful for because it taught us that there are some fundamental things we took for granted but we learned in 2020 about their importance above them health, freedom of movement and family.
That tiny virus coming from China’s Wahun turned the world upside and down and it will take a lot to recover.
We are still on a verge of a new world that is shaping as a result of the economic and political consequences and repercussion of that pandemic.
I feel sorry for everyone who lost a relative or a friend in this pandemic. I feel sorry for everyone who lost his or her job or business because of this pandemic.
Hopefully inshallah 2021 will be better.
Now enough of that wise talk and let’s go to our movers and shakers
This is not the list of the top people but rather those made an impact whether positive or negative based on my own views
This list is without any order.
These names were the ones that came into my mind in those few hours.
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| Nadeen Ashraf, Mayar Sherif, Hala Zayed and Afsha |
Last Wednesday, Egypt’s Health Minister Hala Zayed held a press conference to discuss the latest developments concerning the coronavirus situation in Egypt.
Zayed stated at last Egypt was having its second wave moment of the pandemic, it was not a big secret.
She also spoke about how the official numbers of coronavirus witnessed a leap in the past two weeks.
This was not secret too.
Because aside of every day talk between Egyptians themselves concerning the real numbers of cases and fatalities, we got members of the official coronavirus committee in the government speaking in mainstream media about how the real numbers of coronavirus patients are higher than the official numbers because patients do not go to the hospital except in late deteriorating case according to them.
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| Minister Hala Zayed at the Ministry of health's presser in Cairo last week by Mohamed El-Raai |
Now one of the things that were important in the Health Minister’s presser that was completely ignored by most of the news outlet is the official percentage of COVID-19 cases in Egypt by governorates.
I believe that the ministry of health should including daily cases per governorate in its daily tally because it will warn the citizens.
Already countries like Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Lebanon are doing so.
One of the reasons we are having an increasing number of cases every day is that false feeling of being safe during the pandemic.
Anyhow according to the statement of the minister, Cairo tops the cases of coronavirus since February with nearly 31.7% of the cases.
