Reduction of the number of hours. Prime Minister announces new ban dates in Ramadan

Engineer Mostafa Madbouly, Prime Minister, announced that the number of curfew hours has been reduced, to start at 9:00 p.m. instead of 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m.

“Madbouly” added, in a televised speech, after the cabinet meeting, that stores and malls will be open throughout the week until five in the afternoon.

The Supreme Committee to confront the Corona Virus had met, headed by Madbouly, on Wednesday night, in the presence of the Ministers of Defense and Military Production, Tourism and Antiquities, Supply and Internal Trade, Education and Technical Education, Higher Education and Scientific Research, Finance, Local and Interior Development, Health and Health.N, youth and sports, the state for the media and adviser to the President of the Republic for health and prevention issues, and the head of the unified procurement body, to discuss the measures to be applied with the entry in the month of Ramadan.

Counselor Nader Saad, spokesman for the Presidency of the Council of Ministers, indicated that the meeting witnessed a review of the total number of beds allocated for residence and intensive care, in addition to the fans available in the hospitals of the ministries of health, education superior, defense and interior, as well as the position of the preparations of the university cities to convert them. To hospitals to isolate cases infected with the virus, and procedures for dealing with Egyptians stranded abroad, especially with the start of returning a number of them on a flight today.

On March 24, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi announced that he had ordered the government and the relevant executive agencies to take the necessary steps to develop the precautionary measures used at the state and citizen level to combat the spread of the Corona virus, by taking an additional package of measures that contribute to achieving the highest levels of security, according to Limitations based on achieving the security of Egyptians and not affecting the requirements of the daily life of the Egyptian citizen were corrected.

At that time, the Prime Minister announced 10 decisions on the development of precautionary measures to combat the Corona virus, which included:

1- Citizens are prohibited from moving across the country or moving on all roads from 7 pm to 6 am for a period of two weeks.

2- All public and private transport stops from seven in the afternoon until six in the morning.

3- It is closed from five in the afternoon until six in the morning in front of the public, all the commercial and craft stores, including those that sell products and provide services and shopping centers, “shopping centers” during the week days, except on Fridays and Saturdays, so the closing will be in 24 hours.

4- Close all cafes, coffee shops, coffee shops, casinos, cabarets, discos and similar stores, establishments and shops that offer entertainment or entertainment.

5- Close all restaurants and shops and similar establishments that offer food and mobile food units in front of the public, and work is limited to home delivery service until seven in the afternoon.

6- Suspend the provision of all services provided by the ministries and governments to citizens, such as real estate registration services, civil registration, traffic licenses, work permits and passports.

7- Close all sports and popular clubs, youth centers and gyms in all parts of the Republic.

8- Suspend studies in all schools, institutes and universities of any type, as well as any student meeting, with the aim of receiving education under any name and kindergarten children of any type for a period of two weeks, from Sunday, March 29.

9- Hospitals, medical centers and their staff continue to provide treatment services, as well as pay salaries and pensions from post offices without being subject to any of the dates specified in this decision.

10- Anyone who violates the provisions of these decisions is punished with imprisonment and a fine not exceeding four thousand pounds, or one of these two sanctions.

On April 8, Mustafa Madbouly decided to extend the curfew imposed until Thursday, with all the measures taken regarding the closure of stores, the suspension of air traffic, the closure of schools for the same period and the reduction of employment for state-affiliated companies during the same period, but also decided Daily bans start from 8 p.m. M. Instead of 7 p. M., To reduce overcrowding.