Egyptian authorities have refused to receive a Qatar-chartered Spanish airplane transporting stranded Egyptians from Doha, a source at the Qatari Foreign Ministry said today. The source told Al Jazeera that the Qatari authorities had hired a Spanish plane on Friday, adding that Egyptian authorities had refused “to receive the carrier before take off, claiming that all the international air traffic at Cairo airport had stopped as a precautionary measure to fight the coronavirus.” Al Jazeera recently reported that hundreds of stranded Egyptian workers in Qatar had been demanding authorities in Cairo and Doha secure their return home, referring to the “special flights which had recently transported Egyptians from Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.” READ: Saudi Arabia, Qatar ban arrivals from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon Social … Continue reading Source: Egypt has refused to receive stranded citizens in Qatar