Recently, COVID-19 has spread in many countries around the world, leading to epidemic crisis in many places. It is reported that a cruise ship docked on the Nile River in Egypt recently had a confirmed case, which attracted great attention of the local government and quickly took relevant inspection measures.

According to the confirmed epidemic report of Nile cruise ship, this cruise ship had previously traveled from Aswan to the southern city of Luxor. Up to the 6th local time, 12 cases of COVID-19 infection have been found. According to alaraby, an Arabic news website, none of these patients had any symptoms. As of the 7th, there were 33 new confirmed cases on this cruise ship, which increased the cumulative confirmed cases in Egypt from 15 to 48.

According to reports, according to Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Haller? Zaid said that 19 of the 45 confirmed cases were foreigners. At present, all patients on board are being sent to a hospital in Matru for isolation treatment.

Before the outbreak of the cruise ship, Egypt announced three cases of COVID-19, of which "1 person recovered completely". However, in recent weeks, many tourists to Egypt have developed symptoms after returning to their respective countries, which has also aroused people's concerns about the local epidemic in Egypt. According to Egyptian health officials on March 7, Egypt is deploying testing equipment at the airport, which will show whether passengers carry coronavirus within 30 minutes.

On March 8, local time, Mohammad Osman, head of Luxor Tourism Committee,

Osman) said: "We have decided to screen all hotel guests and tourists on the Luxor Nile cruise ship." At the same time, tourists who enter and leave Luxor monuments by boat in the city are also subject to inspection.

The impact of the epidemic on tourism has always been one of the most important sources of foreign exchange in Egypt. After experiencing the political turmoil of 20 1 1, in recent years, Egypt's tourism industry has shown signs of rebound.

Therefore, after the COVID-19 outbreak, Egyptian government officials were worried about the possible impact on tourism, and the death of German tourists was even worse.

However, in terms of overseas tourists, local tourism companies still feel the obvious impact. Hossamel, head of the chamber of commerce of Egyptian tourism companies

Shaer) said in an interview with local media that compared with the same period last year, the booking volume of foreign tourists dropped by 80%.