Last October, the Egyptian authorities decided not to allow any employee who did not receive the vaccine to enter his workplace, announcing that the alternative available to those who did not wish to receive the Corona vaccine was to perform a “BCR” analysis on a weekly basis.
The authorities also decided that, at the beginning of next December, no Egyptian citizen will be prevented from entering a government facility to finish his procedures until after confirming that he has obtained the vaccine.
And the spokesman for the Egyptian Cabinet, Nader Saad, said that any employee of the state administrative apparatus will refuse to obtain the Corona vaccine, he must bring a “BCR” certificate weekly and at his own expense, stressing that some authorities may request examination twice a week.
And he indicated that the period during which the employee will not go to work because he did not receive the vaccine is considered a period of interruption from work, which will lead to his dismissal if it reaches 15 consecutive days, according to the Egyptian Labor Law.
In this context, the Information and Decision Support Center of the Egyptian Cabinet showed in an opinion poll that 69.5 percent of Egyptians support the decision to prevent the entry of government employees who did not receive the anti-Coronavirus vaccine to their workplaces.
According to the official Egyptian Middle East News Agency; 2.2 percent supported the decision, but with conditions, the most important of which was that the vaccine be effective and have no collateral damage, that the vaccine be easily and easily available, and that a longer deadline be given. 14.1 percent of the citizens objected, and 14.2 percent of the citizens did not specify their opinion.
He pointed out that 62.7 percent of the citizens supported, in the same poll, the decision to prevent unvaccinated citizens from entering government services starting from the first of next December, and 3.1 percent of them supported it on conditions, while 20.9 percent came against the decision, and 13.3 percent of them did not specify their opinion.
Metro Vaccine Booths
In the same context, and to make it easier for citizens, the Egyptian Ministry of Health announced the start of work at the centers for receiving Corona virus vaccines stationed within the “subway” stations, in coordination with the Ministry of Transport, as part of the “Together We Reassure” campaign, register now.
The ministry indicated in a statement that 500 citizens were vaccinated during the first hours through the two vaccination centers installed at the Sadat Metro Station, in the center of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
Penalties for violators and instigators
On the other hand, given the absence of a law regulating the process of managing epidemics and health pandemics, the Egyptian Parliament approved a draft law in this regard.
The law includes penalties for violators and instigators of the spread of rumors during this period, including imprisonment and a fine, provided that it does not exceed 20 thousand pounds, in addition to punishing those who also incited to violate the procedures of pandemics and epidemics.
In this context, a member of the Health Committee of the Egyptian House of Representatives, Mervat Abdel Azim, pointed to the importance of the law, by regulating work during the period of the epidemic or health pandemics, if any of them occurred in the future, which she described as “a lesson learned from due to the Corona pandemic.” “.
She stressed that the aim of the law is also that “closing clubs or schools, stopping certain activities or banning entry to certain countries, and other legislation, must become legal and constitutional, as the law is concerned with everything that concerns the citizen or protects him from the effects of epidemics.”
Abdel Azim revealed that the law includes some compensation and aid for those affected, including reducing, postponing, or paying in installments the citizen’s obligations such as customs and taxes.
On the most prominent articles; She continued, saying, “A fine of 20,000 pounds, and imprisonment for rumor mongers, with regard to epidemics and pandemics that would intimidate and provoke panic or threaten security, and incitement to promotion.”
And she continued, “The right to administrative closure of any citizen who violates the precautionary measures, whether with regard to the percentage of operation, or masks, which gives the legislator the right to issue an immediate closure decision, or to collect a financial fine, in addition to reconciliation and grievance,” describing the law as “comprehensive.”
She denied the existence of controversial articles, while explaining that there were “only some amendments to the penalties, and the formulation of the articles of the law, such as the existence of a grievance in the event of administrative closure”, “to prevent the administrative authorities from intrusiveness, and the citizen feels that there is a body to which the citizen can turn in case he feels that he has been wronged.”
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