Article by Nora Salem. Opinio Juris.
July 10, 2020.
After the WHO’s characterization of COVID-19 as a pandemic on 11 March 2020, the Egyptian government rapidly adopted a variety of containment measures to curb the spread of the virus on 14 March 2020, two weeks after the first confirmed COVID-19 case in Egypt. These measures were accompanied by ambitious mitigation measures to reduce the socioeconomic impacts on the most vulnerable groups. As of today, 1 July 2020, most of the containment measures, including international flight restrictions, night time curfew as well as closure of the entertainment industry, are lifted. Instead, the government announced its co-existence strategy, whereby people will have to implement certain precautionary measures, including wearing face masks, hand sanitation and operation of the entertainment industry at 25 percent capacity.
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