Economics
Virus Toll on Jobs, Incomes Laid Bare in Egypt Before Reopening
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By the time coronavirus cases began to creep up in Egypt in May, disruptions to trade and tourism left a trail of job losses that now threaten more than a half-decade of declining unemployment in the Arab world’s most populous nation.