Twelve cases of coronavirus detected among the staff of a Nile cruise ship

Twelve cases of coronavirus were detected among the personnel of a cruise ship on the Nile (illustration image). Michel Benoist / CC / Wikimedia Commons

Text by: Alexandre Buccianti

Twelve new cases of coronavirus have been detected in Egypt, a joint statement from the Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Friday. This brings the number of cases detected in Egypt to 15 since the start of the global epidemic.

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From our correspondent in Cairo,

It was following the communication by WHO of the case of a Taiwanese tourist who returned from Egypt that the authorities carried out analyzes of all the people with whom she had come into contact during a cruise on the Nile.

Twelve crew members tested positive for the virus without developing symptoms of the disease. They have been placed in quarantine while the other crew members are confined. Three other cases, one of which is cured, had been detected in Egypt.

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For the moment, the Egyptians do not seem to give in to the psychosis of the coronavirus. An attitude which is explained by an ancestral fatalism and especially by a communication hitherto well controlled. The media, including news channels, distill information on the coronavirus in a very measured manner and leave a large place for reassuring speech by officials. Tourism professionals, on the other hand, are very concerned. Cancellations are raining and there are hardly any new reservations.

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