{"id":559048,"date":"2021-01-06T03:45:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T03:45:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/01\/06\/what-were-tracking-on-6-january-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-01-06T03:45:01","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T03:45:01","slug":"what-were-tracking-on-6-january-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/01\/06\/what-were-tracking-on-6-january-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"What we\u2019re tracking on 6 January 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"

Merry Christmas to everyone who will be celebrating today and tomorrow <\/strong>\u2014 we wish you a beautiful, relaxing day with family and friends.<\/p>\n

Banks and the EGX are closing their doors tomorrow in observance of the national <\/strong>holiday<\/strong>, the Central Bank of Egypt<\/a> and EGX<\/a> said. We\u2019re also off tomorrow and we\u2019ll be back in your inboxes at the usual hour on Sunday.<\/p>\n

The big news at home this morning: <\/strong>Qatar is, indeed, coming in from the cold under the Al-Ula accords signed yesterday. We have chapter and verse in this morning\u2019s news well, below. In the first sign that Egypt is really on board with the truce: Qatar\u2019s finance minister is reported to have quietly arrived in Cairo<\/a> yesterday for the opening of the Nileside St Regis Hotel, developed by Qatari Diar.<\/p>\n

The big news abroad:<\/strong> It\u2019s a big day for the US of A as votes are counted in two races in Georgia that will determine the balance of power in the Senate. Meanwhile, Agent Orange is ramping up pressure on VP Mike Pence<\/a> to throw the presidential election results out when Congress meets today to certify the results of the Electoral College vote count.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s going to be a nail-biter in Georgia: <\/strong>At dispatch time, the two GOP challengers leapfrogged the Dems who had been leading earlier in our shift. The New York Times says the results are so close that counting could drag on until some time later this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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WEEKEND MUST READ- A compelling argument that the virus that causes covid <\/strong>escaped from a lab in China. <\/strong>Nope, we\u2019re not joining the tinfoil hat brigade on this one \u2014 it\u2019s plausible. And yes, we all need to be a bit concerned. Read the epic Lab-leak hypothesis<\/a><\/strong> in New York magazine.<\/p>\n

Also epic, also a must-read: <\/strong>The mutated virus is a ticking time bomb<\/a><\/strong> by Zeynep Tufekci in The Atlantic. Ignore her at your own peril \u2014 she\u2019s been ahead of much of the scientific community in her reporting on covid-19, starting with her entirely on-point argument that masking would be the best way of slowing the spread of the bug. (Remember when the WHO told us all that masks were overkill?)<\/p>\n

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