The scene of the accreditation of the parents of high school students in Egypt, the children delivering to the examination committees, waiting for them in front of the schools until the end of the exam, and receiving them with an overwhelming embrace, and the bottled water bottles, which protect them from the heat of the air, and the heat of the questions.

Years ago, the scene continued to be repeated every year, in a natural and streamlined image that is in line with the difficulty or ease of examing every day, but this year the situation began to be different, for fear is not only due to exams, but from the ghost of Covid-19, which surrounds the secondary committees.

Survival invitations

The anxiety and tension required for most mothers of high school students, everyone did not sleep on the most difficult night, as one is honored or insulted, or perhaps one goes and does not return, because the safety provided by the homes for their children under the skies of continuous sterilization and disinfection, the ministry promised to provide it in front of the committees and inside, And mothers are now claiming that the exams pass well, no longer caring for the result, but rather supplication that their children be returned safely.

Invitations across groups of parents on the communication sites, to ease the gathering in front of the committees, so that the gatherings do not become a fertile environment for the spread of the deadly virus, but those invitations did not find a listening ear. For each school, hundreds of parents gathered from seven in the morning until the end of the exam, the news continued Through the communication sites, about the discovery of a Corona case for a teacher in the Sayyida Zeinab area, then another news about a student being infected with the virus in a school in Nasr City and being transferred to the hospital, it became terrifying, even those who settled in his home did not find anyone going to follow the situation in his son’s school or His daughter.

False security

Dina, the student’s student, Dina, describes a school in the Haram neighborhood of Al-Jazeera Net, the fear that accompanied her and her family over the past months, to reach the most intense day, “I decided to stay at home, and my husband delivers my daughter to the committee, so I wait for her and read to her the Qur’an and prayers at home, but her collapse and fear before her , Made me accompany her until the end of the day. "

In front of the examination committee, there are no precautionary measures emphasized by the Minister of Education, no sterilizers, no sterile gates, or anything that the Egyptian media talked about, in an attempt to reassure the people, according to Dina, adding, “I bring with me a bottle of alcohol, and another bottle containing dilute chlorine. To sterilize and cleanse my daughter before and after she left the committee, and I warned her not to remove the muzzle inside the committee, but the heat and the closing of the fans in the seasons might push her to displace the muzzle to breathe. "

One hand holds the Mus-haf, and another carries alcohol. This was the case of the forty-year-old woman, who stood in front of her son's committee in Nasr City, waiting for him until the exam was completed. Second, for fear of Corona, this was not approved by her son who wanted to end the high school nightmare, even at the expense of threatening his health and life.

The situation of the mothers who decided to stay at home is not different from the situation of those in front of the committees, for there is one concern. In one of the schools in the Tenth District in Nasr City, Habiba Ahmed went alone to her examination committee and refused to be accompanied by one of her parents, so that they would not be exposed to danger.

Hell of anxiety

The 17-year-old, holding a calm face in front of her parents, held together before her paradise, prepared for her mother a bowl of crushed wheat with milk, to help her revitalize her memory, a spoon of white honey and lemon to strengthen immunity, and a vitamin C tablet, all of which was taken by Habiba before she got off , With her mother's prayers and her father's remembrance.

The daughter went to the exam and the family remained awake at home, calling and praying for a safe return, tremor that hit the mother, stomach pain and severe sweating, symptoms of a severe panic attack that she suffered for the first time, in fear for her daughter, with the approach of one o'clock in the afternoon, the date of her leaving the committee and the end of the day . "If we don't sleep in Koruna, we will die of a heart attack," said Father Ahmed Abdel-Al, who is distracted between the stress of waiting for his daughter and anxiety over the wife of Al-Jazeera Net.

Abdel-Al continued, "What is happening was not expected by anyone at all." Abdel-Al considered that betting on the ease of examinations under Corona is the only reason that pushed him and others to not postpone the exams of their children, but added, "But I do not know if this situation continues, I will not risk My daughter is shrewd in all education.