Egypt: 47 tourists suffer food poisoning at Red Sea resort

CAIRO — Egypt’s main authoritative has ordered the detention of 3 edifice workers pending an probe into the nutrient poisoning suffered by astir 50 overseas tourists astatine a edifice successful a fashionable Red Sea resort.

Public Prosecutor Hamada el-Sawy said successful a connection precocious Sunday that the workers, including the hotel’s apical chef, look accusations of endangering the guests’ lives. The workers denied the accusations, the prosecutor’s connection said.

The sickened tourists see 14 Estonians, 29 Russians and 4 from the Czech Republic. They were hospitalized aft they had meal implicit the play successful the edifice metropolis of Hurghada, the connection said. Many person been discharged from infirmary aft their conditions improved, it said.

Tourism authorities person ordered the closure of the hotel, suspended its manager and revoked his enactment license.

Russia’s TASS quality bureau quoted the Russian Consul General successful Hurghada, Viktor Voropayev, arsenic saying that the tourists person been accommodated astatine different hotels. Russia is simply a large root of overseas tourists visiting Egypt.

“The wellness information of each the patients is satisfactory, unchangeable and not life-threatening,” Voropayev was quoted arsenic saying.

The incidental has travel arsenic Egypt is struggling to revive its captious tourism industry, which was severely deed by the turmoil that followed the 2011 uprising, and much precocious by the coronavirus pandemic.

The authorities has kept looser virus-related restrictions successful the Red Sea resorts of Hurghada and Sharm el-Sheikh to effort to pull overseas visitors.

Government efforts received a boost successful August erstwhile Russia allowed the resumption of flights betwixt its territory and the Red Sea resorts for the archetypal clip since a weaponry by the section Islamic State affiliate brought down a Russian formation implicit Sinai Peninsula successful October 2015, sidesplitting each 224 radical connected board.