Last Night’s Talk Shows on 13 January 2020

The first session of the parliament and covid-19 dominated proceedings on the airwaves last night, both of which we recap in full in this morning’s Politics and Covid Watch sections.

Elsewhere, the government’s natgas transition plan was again in focus as Yahduth Fi Misr's Sherif Amer phoned Trade and Industry Minister Nevine Gamea. Some 22k people have applied to convert their cars to run on natural gas while 57k have registered for the scheme on the official website. The government will prioritize people living in the most densely populated governorates of Cairo, Alexandria and Qalyubia, she said (watch, runtime: 14:53).