FILE - Court of LawCAIRO - 15 March 2020: Egypt’s judicial institutions suspended court trials for two weeks nationwide due to the outbreak of coronavirus (Covid 2019), according to a statement issued by the Ministry of Justice on Sunday. "The Court of Cassation, the Supreme Judicial Council, the State Council, and the General Prosecution decided to postponeall lawsuits for two weeks, starting from Monday, March 16, 2020," the statement read. She added that four coronavirus cases left quarantine, after they tested negative for the disease, bringing the total number of cured people to 32.Coronavirus has forced many countries to suspend their flights around the globe after the infected cases reached 157,483 people and 5,845 deaths were reported to date. On March 10, 2020, the virus was announced a global pandemic by the World Health Organization.“WHO is deeply concerned by the alarming levels of the coronavirus spread, severity & inaction, & expects to see the number of cases, deaths & affected countries climb even higher. Therefore, we made the assessment that COVID19 can be characterized as a pandemic,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusin in a press conference.

Source: Egypt Today March 15, 2020 15:22 UTC