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COVID-19:Where Do We Stand Now?

Reem Omran, Zeina Marei, Nour Alaa, Adham Nasreldin
With globalization connecting the world Secondly, the students were asked: Are
and making it smaller, the dreaded Covid- the international governments, the
19 virus emerged and diffused into our Egyptian government included, still
society in a blink of an eye, and as it handling the pandemic situation the same
wandered around every corner, way they did in early 2020? The answers
government’s interventions were already varied, whereas some argued that dealing
too late in containing the situation despite with the crisis has not changed, but the
all the precautionary measures that were lockdown measures generally got
forced into place. After 2 years of an loosened up, due the difficulty of citizens
ongoing pandemic, with no end yet to be and economies bearing them, whether
foreseen, we, Elite editors, were eager to over the domestic and the international
listen to the views of Cairo University’s level; There’s not a country that can
students regarding the whole situation of handle 2 whole years of total lockdowns
handling the virus, especially after the as, for instance, the administrative sector

huge peak in the of cases and emergence of a state cannot afford the salaries of its
of the new variance “Omicron”. employees while reducing their working
The interview went as followed, with an days through dividing the employees over
opening question of how you see or the week days in order to enforce social
evaluate the today’s status of the Covid-19 distancing. On the contrast, others believe
pandemic? The answers to that question that the situation handling has greatly
revolved around one main view, which is differed, because the pandemic is
the severity of the pandemic, and how it’s extremely out of control, to the extent
threating the whole world. Despite the where governments are just forced to
facts that it has been two years, the normally live with the virus, whilst trying
existence of progressed vaccines and the their best with raising the sufficient
enforcement of strong precautionary awareness and enforcing safety
measures, the virus is still causing terror measures.
all around.

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Vol.1, Issue 40, February 2022
Vol.1, Issue 40, February 2022