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June 18, 2020: Resumption of flights to Algeria and opening of borders
The Minister of Transport, Farouk Chiali, takes a decision regarding the opening of borders and the resumption of flights in Algeria. These depend on the decision of the Scientific Committee responsible for monitoring the Coronavirus epidemic in the country.
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June 18, 2020: ASL Airlines offers new flights from Algeria to France
New return flights are scheduled by the airline, ASL Airlines France. These special rotations represent repatriation operations for French nationals still stranded on Algerian territory.
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June 18, 2020: The ministry unveils the calendar for university vacations
The Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research unveiled, on Wednesday, the summer vacation calendar for the 2019/2020 academic year.
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June 17, 2020: COVID-19 – Prayers in mosques are suspended as a precaution
The Fatwa commission stressed on Tuesday the need to keep prayers in mosques suspended “as a precaution” and on the basis of the opinion issued by public health experts, until ‘to the elimination of the reasons behind this state.
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June 17, 2020: Coronavirus Algeria – What Belmehdi said about the reopening of mosques
Minister of Religious Affairs and Wakfs, Youcef Belmehdi, spoke today on radio station 3 on the possible opening of mosques in Algeria.
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June 17, 2020: The new Kawasaki disease, linked to COVID-19, appears in Algeria
A first case of Kawasaki, a new disease linked to COVID-19 and which threatens children, was detected on Tuesday in the Algerian wilaya of Batna, announced the Algerian Ministry of Health.
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June 17, 2020: Alert; after coronavirus, Kawasaki disease arrives in Africa through Algeria
The Algerian Ministry of Health announced, Tuesday, June 16, the detection of the first case of Kawasaki in the country. It is a new disease linked to COVID-19 which affects young children and infants with a high proportion (intriguing fact awaiting confirmation) among children of African origin, as reported by Science and Life. According to the head of the pediatric service of the CHU of the city of Batna, the first child with this disease in Algeria, is 3 years old. None of his parents and relatives are infected with COVID-19.
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June 16, 2020: Gradual lifting of confinement: Additional measures taken by the Prime Minister
A number of additional measures have been taken by Prime Minister Abdelaziz Djerad as part of the second phase of the roadmap for a gradual and flexible exit from confinement and the resumption of certain commercial, economic and social activities, measures contained in an instruction addressed to members of the government and the authorities concerned.
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June 16, 2020: The Kawasaki disease appears in Algeria
Kawasaki disease has appeared in Algeria. A case was detected in Batna on Tuesday June 16. The concerned is a 3-year-old child from Aïn Touta, in the same province. It was the head of the pediatrics department of the Batna University Hospital, namely Djamila Brahmi, who announced this discovery to the channel Ennahar TV.
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June 16, 2020: Reopening – Taxis authorized to transport two people at a time
The Government announced on Tuesday additional measures as part of the second phase of progressive reopening implemented by the authorities after three months of sanitary confinement imposed by the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19).
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June 16, 2020: Justice – Trials will be held without audience because of the Coronavirus
The Minister of Justice, Belkacem Zeghmati, reported on Tuesday in Algiers of a “consensus around a gradual resumption” of judicial activities in compliance with the rules and preventive measures against COVID-19.
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June 15, 2020: Council of Ministers – What to remember
President Abdelmadjid Tebboune chaired a cabinet meeting by video conference on Sunday. Among the decisions taken was the “immediate” closure of unauthorized dry ports and of “making it compulsory” for those authorized to acquire scanners to facilitate customs control.
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June 15, 2020: President Tebboune orders the tightening of health control across the national territory
The President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune ordered during the periodic videoconference meeting of the Council of Ministers which he chaired on Sunday, the tightening of health control across the national territory, following a presentation by the Minister of Health, Population and Hospital Reform, Abderrahmane Benbouzid on the evolution of the national health situation linked to COVID-19, as well as on the measures taken to curb it.
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June 15, 2020: National Education – The holiday calendar and the date for the start of the 2020-2021 school year revealed
The Ministry of National Education released on Monday, June 15, the summer vacation calendar for the 2019-2020 school year and the start of the 2020-2021 school year.
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June 15, 2020: Financial imperatives after COVID-19 – Economic reconstruction risks being slow and laborious
Far from being contained, the COVID-19 pandemic and its immediate, medium and long-term consequences on economies around the world, those already in difficulty in particular, is constantly raising growing concerns, at all levels and on all levels.
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June 14, 2020: Lifting of the confinement act II: This is what will change from this Sunday
The second phase of the confinement lifting plan in Algeria begins this Sunday, June 14, a week after the entry into force of the first act. Meeting at the Presidency of the Republic on Saturday, the Scientific Committee in charge of monitoring the COVID-19 epidemic in Algeria announced five major measures.
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June 14, 2020: What we know about the border reopening decision
The question of reopening the country’s land, sea and air borders was ultimately not resolved. Indeed, the decision was postponed for the beginning of next July. This is what emerges from the press release from the presidency which sanctioned the meeting between the Head of State, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, and the Scientific Committee for monitoring the evolution of the coronavirus pandemic, in the presence of Prime Minister, Abdelaziz Djerad.
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June 14, 2020: COVID-19 – The new fixed working hours
The working hours applicable in public institutions and administrations are those fixed by the regulations in force, from Sunday to Thursday, taking into account the new home confinement measures provided for by the regulatory plan relating to the prevention and the fight against the propagation Coronavirus (COVID-19), indicates a press release from the Directorate General of Public Service and Administrative Reform.
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June 14, 2020: Total lifting of confinement for 19 wilayas and reduction of schedules for 29 others
The government has decided to completely lift home confinement for 19 wilayas and to adjust the timetables for this measure, taken as part of the fight against coronavirus, for the rest of the wilayas, said a press release from the Prime Minister’s office.
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June 14, 2020: COVID-19: Lifting of the exceptional leave
A press release from the Prime Minister came to announce the continuation of the plan for progressive confinement’s lifting in Algeria. It’s in the second phase of it; that the Algerian Government has indicated the suspension of the exceptional paid leave of 50% of the workforce.
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June 13, 2020: Total lifting of confinement for 19 wilayas and reduction of schedules for 29 others
The government has decided to completely lift home confinement for 19 wilayas and to adjust the hours of this measure, taken in the context of the fight against coronavirus, for the rest of the wilayas, said a press release on Saturday from the Prime Minister’s services.
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June 13, 2020: Publication of the decree fixing the conditions for the gradual resumption of certain economic and commercial activities
The executive decree fixing the conditions for the gradual resumption of certain economic, commercial and service activities was published in the official journal.
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June 13, 2020: Algiers extends partial confinement in the face of a persistent pandemic
The Algerian government decided on Saturday evening to maintain partial confinement, while easing the curfew, in most of the country, due to the still high number of contaminations to COVID-19 (nearly 11,000).
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June 13, 2020: Arrival on Friday in Algiers of 297 Algerians repatriated from Turkey
Algeria is continuing to repatriate its nationals stranded abroad due to the suspension of border closings caused by the spread of the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) worldwide.
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June 13, 2020: COVID-19 – Fear of a second wave
The director of the Pasteur Institute of Algeria spoke about the epidemiological situation relating to the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Algeria. Dr. Fawzi Derrar alerted, this Saturday, June 13, in a statement to the APS, on the risk of a second wave of the pandemic in the event that the Algerians do not respect the measures to fight the virus.
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