The Cabinet decides to transfer all students of transitional classes in the basic and secondary education stages to the higher grade

 The Council of Ministers decided to transfer all students of transitional classes in the basic and secondary education stages to the higher grade, and the Ministry of Education was requested to draw up a plan to compensate the educational losses for students at the beginning of next year.

During its weekly session on April 26, headed by Prime Minister Eng. Imad Khamis, the Cabinet asked the Ministries of Education and Health to coordinate to set the appropriate date for conducting exams of “Basic and secondary education certificates in all its branches” and to take the necessary measures to preserve students ’health by increasing the number of exam centers and achieving spatial spacing between students and achieving Health safety conditions for all students.

The Cabinet decided to extend the suspension of the working hours of public and private universities and institutes until after the Eid Al-Fitr holiday.

The Cabinet conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the measures to tackle the Coronavirus and its direct impact on the economic and service sectors and  stressed the importance of strict enforcement of the curfew.

The Cabinet asked all ministries to start gradually implementing ordinary working routine ,provided that the working time will continue to be forty percent this week, so that the percentage  will gradually increase, according to the directorates most in need of completing the work. Each ministry has been asked to prepare a health response plan for them and all the affiliated entities and adhere to the Ministry of Health’s guidelines and instructions for the prevention of coronavirus.

Approving the plan of the Ministry of Health to receive returning citizens from all countries and the mechanism for receiving them

The Cabinet approved the plan of the Ministry of Health to receive returning citizens from all countries and the mechanism for receiving them and securing their requirements and quarantine centers that have become ready to host the arrivals in the quarantine centers for 14 days

The Cabinet reaffirmed its commitment to all ministries and public sector agencies to put in place a mechanism to limit any clusters in the services they provide and to ensure conditions of health safety.

The ministries of the Interior, Local Administration and the Environment were mandated to prevent any clusters in the services provided by the private sector and take strict measures against violators.

Combating smuggling in all its forms:

The Cabinet asked the Ministries of Finance and Interior and all concerned parties to strictly combat smuggling in all its forms, especially smuggling foodstuffs and imposing the maximum penalties for anyone who smuggled materials out of borders.

The Cabinet stressed the importance of citizens cooperating to report any smuggling operation, especially in border villages.

The Governors were tasked to establish popular markets in regions, cities and towns so that farmers can directly showcase their products to consumers and sell them at competitive prices.

The Cabinet approved the plan of the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor to launch a new stage of the program to support and enable the new people who finished their military service.

The Cabinet approved the mechanism prepared by the Ministry of Agriculture to reschedule the farmers societies’debts in order to enable these societies to fulfill their role and obtain financing from the Agricultural Bank.

In a statement to reporters after the session, Minister of Education Emad Al-Azab stated that the Ministry of Education will evaluate students of the ‘seventh, eighth, tenth and eleventh grades’ and collect the results of this evaluation with the marks of the first semester to arrange the sequence of their success.

In turn, Minister of Finance Dr. Mamoun Hamdan indicated that a group of strict measures was taken to prevent and reduce the smuggling that has increased recently, especially with regard to the smuggling of foodstuffs.

For his part, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Dr. Bassam Ibrahim said that the ministry continues to provide the required information in educational curricula through websites during the period of extending the suspension of working hours for universities and institutes, where more than eighty percent of these courses were loaded in addition to students’ communication with professors in some research courses.

The Minister of Agriculture and Agrarian Reform Eng. Ahmed Al-Qadri pointed out that the adoption of the mechanism in which the situation of bad debts in the agricultural societies was addressed.

O. al-Mohammad/ Inas. Abdulkareem