Final deal on Ever Given ship, Covid-19 new measures and more in the News Digest

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New directives for good management of Waqfs assets, final deal on Ever Given ship and Covid-19 new measures have made yesterday’s press headlines.

President Abdel Fattah El Sisi stressed the importance of the preservation, development and good management of the assets of religious endowments (waqfs), and the necessity of taking urgent measures to remove any infringement on them, and the speedy collection of any accumulated financial arrears.

Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli has expressed Egypt’s keenness to secure the rollout of coronavirus vaccines across Africa, whether via its current efforts to locally produce vaccines or by participating in the African Union initiative to jointly manufacture vaccines.

Egypt’s Ambassador in London, Tarek Adel, has received three artifacts dating back to the Pharaonic and Greek eras, before they get sold at a gallery in London. The artifacts were initially confirmed to have been illegally taken out of Egypt.

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry on Thursday condemned the transferring of the embassy of Honduras to Jerusalem as a blatant violation to the international law and UN resolutions concerning the Old City and its political and legal status.

Honduras transferred its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem on Thursday, becoming the fourth country to do so.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the General Authority for Healthcare (GAH) Ahmed El Sobky on Thursday discussed at a meeting with CEO of the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) Tarek Fathey means of fostering cooperation in digitising medical institutions.

A final deal settling the financial dispute over the six-day blockage of the Egyptian Suez Canal by the giant Ever Given ship is expected within next week, with the giant vessel set to be released afterward, according to Suez Canal Authority (SCA) head Osama Rabie.

Egypt has updated the anti-coronavirus safety measures for all arrivals from abroad as per directives from the Ministry of Health and Population.

All passengers traveling to Egypt from anywhere should provide a negative PCR test performed 72 hours before departure, but based on the new measures, vaccination certificates could be provided instead of the nasal swab test.