Egypt’s pro-regime media have launched a campaign against doctors fighting Covid-19, after the country’s largest medical union published a strongly-worded statement this week accusing the health ministry of “negligence”, resulting in the deaths of medics from coronavirus.

Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced Monday that it would launch an investigation into the death of 32-year-old obstetrician Dr. Waleed Yehia Abdel Halim who worked at Cairo’s Mounira General Hospital, according to Ahram Online.

Egyptian parliament approved by a majority of the draft law of terrorist entities lists, which provides for expanding the definition of “terrorist entity” to include new categories, such as companies and unions, under the pretext of combating “money laundering and financing terrorism.”

The Supreme Media Regulatory Council (SMRC) has received 284 requests to license websites, newspapers, and television channels under the terms of the new media law, according to statements by SMRC members on Tuesday. Around 198 licensing requests to register websites “failed to present the required documents for licensing,” according to …

Prominent Egyptian journalist and former activist Israa Abdelfattah has gone missing after being detained by plainclothes officers on Saturday night in the Egyptian capital, a friend who witnessed the incident said.

President of the Press Syndicate, Diaa Rashwan, said the syndicate supports the journalists of the private-run Al-Tahrir newspaper who are protesting against the administration’s decision to reduce their salaries.

Several pharmacists asked the Egyptian government to dismiss Minister of Health Hala Zayed after she stated that the absence of one nurse is more influential than the absence of 100 pharmacists, during her visit to the Directorate of Health Insurance System in Port Said.

The Press Syndicate had followed with a deep concern the storming of the Sada El-Balad news website on Tuesday which resulted in the wounding of three fellow journalists, said the syndicate’s head, Diaa Rashwan, on Tuesday.

Cairo’s Administrative Court deferred on Sunday the consideration into a lawsuit filed by an editor-in-chief whose media website was blocked and fined by the Supreme Media Council (SMC) last week over alleged violations. The court postponed the lawsuit until 26 May.

The mid-term elections for Egypt’s Journalists Syndicate on March 15 saw Diaa Rashwan become its head and several new figures join its council. A security source and multiple journalists told Mada Masr that the security apparatus played a role in the outcome.