A municipality worker cleans lamp posts amid a sandstorm and coronavirus fears outside the Luxor Temple in Egypt's southern city of Luxor on March 12, 2020. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





People crowd a street a few hours ahead of curfew in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, April 14, 2020. The government has imposed a nationwide curfew from 8 p.m. to 6 a.m due to the coronavirus outbreak. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





Women who work at Egypt's agriculture and fruit exporting company, Gamco, get ready before work in the changing room at a factory, in the Mediterranean province of Alexandria, Egypt, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. Egypt has been listed as the world's largest exporter of orange, according to Aswaq financial company. “Our exporting business to Europe is doing very well these days because people are in need of vitamin C and the demand is higher due to COVID-19”, says Gamco general manager Mohammed el-Sherif. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





Workers at Egypt's agriculture and fruit exporting company, Gamco, wear face masks as a preventive measure because of the coronavirus pandemic, as they assemble oranges for export at a factory, in the Mediterranean province of Alexandria, Egypt, Wednesday, April 15, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A watch showing the time at noon, is displayed for a photo in front of Tahrir Square during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt, March 31, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





Members of the medical team prepare to spray disinfectant as a precautionary move amid concerns over the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak at the Great Pyramids, Giza, on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt, March 25, 2020. (Photo by Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters)





Egyptian youths decorate their residential street in preparation for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan in Cairo's Hadayek el-Maadi district, on April 21, 2020. From cancelled iftar feasts to suspended mosque prayers, Muslims across the Middle East are bracing for a bleak month of Ramadan fasting as the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic lingers. Ramadan is a period for both self-reflection and socialising. Believers fast from dawn to dusk and then gather around a family or community meal each evening of Islam's holiest month, which begins later this week and ends with Eid al-Fitr festivities (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





Volunteers riding in kayaks take part in a water-waste removal and cleanup campaign in the Nile river off the island of Manial in Egypt's capital Cairo on March 7, 2020. Early one morning in Cairo, a flotilla of some 300 environmental determined activists paddle their kayaks across the Nile, fishing out garbage from the mighty waterway that gave birth to Egyptian civilisation but now faces multiple threats. In the past three years they say they have picked some 37 tonnes of cans, plastic bottles, disposable bags and other trash from the waters and shores along the Nile in Egypt. (Photo by Khaled Desouki/AFP Photo)





A worker stands inside the entrance to the Burial Chamber inside King Djoser's step pyramid, also known as the Saqqara pyramid, in Saqqara area, Giza, Egypt, 05 March 2020.Egypt on 05 March 2020 reopened the Djoser Pyramid after a restoration project that initially began in 2006, before it was halted in 2011 and resumed in 2013. The project included restoration of the outer facades of the pyramid, the internal corridors leading to the burial well, the stone sarcophagus, and stairs of two entrances. The King Djoser's step pyramid is the main attraction at the Saqqara necropolis that includes also tens of tombs, royal pyramids and noblemen tombs and a Middle Kingdom pyramid. (Photo by Khaled Elfiqi/EPA/EFE)





A woman wearing a protective face mask walks in Cairo, amidst concerns about the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Egypt, May 4, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





This May 9, 2020 photo, shows the Ramadan sweets shop where 28-year-old football defender Mahrous Mahmoud works at a market, in Manfalut, a town 350 kilometers (230 miles) south of Cairo, in the province of Assiut, Egypt. Mahmoud should be on the field at this time of year playing as a defender for Beni Suef, a club in Egypt's second division. But like millions in the Arab world's most populous country, he has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A man wears makeshift rain gear as he navigates a flooded road after heavy rains in the Zamalek district of Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, March 12, 2020. Thunderstorms packing heavy rains and lightning caused widespread flooding in Egypt on Thursday, killing several people and causing authorities to shut down schools and an airport, officials said. (Photo by Maya Alleruzzo/AP Photo)





Egyptian security forces cordon off roads during curfew hours as prevention measures due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





Egyptian security forces cordon off roads during curfew hours as prevention measures due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 29, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A puppy sits near the pyramids before the Ministry of Antiquities lights up the Giza Pyramids in an expression of support for health workers battling the coronavirus, in Giza, Egypt, Monday, March 30, 2020. The Egyptian government extended the closure of the country's famed museums and archaeological sites, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx at Giza, until at least April 15. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A girl waits outside her home to see if she and her family will get a carton filled with food from non-governmental organization Resala Nour Ala Nour, who are distributing aid to people who have been highly affected by the coronavirus pandemic, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, April 9, 2020. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





Cars are stuck in a traffic jam before hours of curfew to contain the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Cairo, Egypt, April 14, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A farmer carries a bundle of wheat after harvesting it from a field in the Gharbia Governorate, as Egypt ramps up efforts to slow the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Egypt on May 14, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)





A journalist looks at his mobile phone as the Ministry of Antiquities lights up the pyramids in an expression of support for health workers battling the coronavirus outbreak, Monday, March 30, 2020, in Giza, Egypt. (Photo by Nariman El-Mofty/AP Photo)





A woman wearing a face mask amid the coronavirus (COVID-19) walks in front of the closed Sayyida Zainab Mosque near markets that sell traditional lanterns in Cairo, Egypt, April 12, 2020. (Photo by Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters)