{"id":278886,"date":"2020-08-20T09:30:18","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=278886"},"modified":"2020-08-20T09:30:18","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T12:30:18","slug":"egypt-has-welcomed-over-100000-tourists-since-reopening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/egypt-has-welcomed-over-100000-tourists-since-reopening\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt has welcomed over 100,000 tourists since reopening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Egypt released on Wednesday (19) the results of the resumption of tourism. The Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism reported that over 100,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sis.gov.eg\/Story\/150695\/Govt.-More-than-100%2c000-tourists-have-visited-Egypt-since-July2020?lang=en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tourists<\/a> have visited Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh (<em>pictured <\/em>above) since Egypt\u2019s resumption of inbound tourism.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_278861\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-278861\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-278861\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8202019144129788-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8202019144129788-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/8202019144129788.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-278861\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anani: Cultural activities to be resumed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The country started receiving tourists again on July 1<sup>st<\/sup>. According to the Egyptian government\u2019s website, the tourists came from Belarus, Ukraine, Switzerland, Hungary and Serbia. Antiquities and Tourism minister Khaled Anani recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sis.gov.eg\/Story\/150641\/Tourism-Minister-Cultural-tourism-activities-to-be-resumed-soon?lang=en-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">promised<\/a> that cultural tourism activities will be resumed soon.<\/p>\n<p>The three governorates open to tourists at present are South Sinai, Red Sea and Matrouh. Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh are some of the main tourist attractions of these governorates. The ministry said that most tourists have returned home without a case of COVID-19 being observed. But the government did not release the numbers of possible contaminations.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt currently has 96,753 COVID-19 cases and 5,184 deaths, according to the World Health Organization. Egypt requires all those arriving to present a negative PCR test result. It also requires an international health insurance and filling out a form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-278877\">Khlaed<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-278861\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism, more than 100,000 tourists have visited Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh since Egypt\u2019s resumption of tourism on July 1st.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":278877,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[9803,15734,15418,15469,15736,36327,9692,2247],"class_list":{"0":"post-278886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-egypt-en","9":"tag-hurghada-en","10":"tag-reabertura","11":"tag-reopening","12":"tag-sharm-el-sheikh-en","13":"tag-sharm-el-sheikh-en-2","14":"tag-tourism-en","15":"tag-tourists"},"wps_subtitle":"According to Egypt\u2019s Ministry of Antiquities and Tourism, more than 100,000 tourists have visited Hurghada and Sharm El Sheikh since Egypt\u2019s resumption of tourism on July 1st.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}