Qalyub

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Qalyub

(käl`yo͞ob), town (1986 pop. 84,413), N Egypt, on the Nile River, part of metropolitan Cairo. It is the trade center for a densely populated agricultural region.

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A farmer harvests wheat on Qalyub farm in the El-Kalubia governorate, northeast of Cairo, Egypt May 1, 2016.

Gov't announces wheat cultivated areas rise to 1.5M feddans in winter

August 2006 : 58 were killed while 142 were injured in a collision between two trains in Qalyub. The first train was coming from Mansoura while the second one was coming from Benha on the same line.

The deadliest 10 train incidents in Egypt in the last 2 decades

Later in Qalyub, north of Cairo, street battles killed three people, one of them run over by a train as he tried to escape the violence.

Pressure mounts for Mursi release; 10 killed in clashes

CCHFV belongs to the genus Nairovirus (family Bunyaviridae), which contains 7 serogroups: CCHFV, Dugbe virus, Hughes virus, Sakhalin virus, Dera Ghazi Khan virus, Qalyub virus, and Thiafora virus.

Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus, Northeastern Greece

Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virusun de icinde bulundugu Nairovirus grubu, toplam yedi farkli serogrup virus tarafindan olusturulur (Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever virus, Dera Ghazi Khan virus, Dugbe virus, Hughes virus, Qalyub virus, Sakhalin virus ve Thiafora virus).

Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever/Kirim Kongo kanamali atesi

The Boqueron Schistosomiasis generated much useful data on the natural infection of schistosomiasis, and served as a model for a similar study in Qalyub, Nile Delta, Egypt (see Cline, et al., 1989).

The rise and fall of Bilharzia in Puerto Rico: its centennial 1904-2004

Farmers harvest wheat on Qalyub farm in the El-Kalubia governorate, northeast of Cairo, Egypt May 1, 2016.

Egypt denies claims of reducing wheat-cultivated lands for more imports: IDSC

Also, the pardon includes the former dean of the Faculty of Dawah (Inviting to Islam) at Al-Azhar University, Abdullah Barakat, who was serving a life prison sentence for being accused in the case known as "cutting Qalyub Road" during demonstrations after the ouster of former president Mohammed Morsi in 2013.

Al-Sisi issues presidential pardon for 502 prisoners

Another three people died Monday night in violence in Qalyub, north of Cairo, one of them hit by a train as he tried to escape the clashes.

Egypt clashes leave another six dead

Farmers transplant rice seedlings in a paddy field in Qalyub in Egypt's El-Kalubia governorate - REUTERS CAIRO -- 21 June 2018: Satellites spotted 576,000 feddans of cultivated rice (one feddan is about 1.038 acres) until now in Egypt's governorates, said Head of Planning Department and Rain Forecasting Center affiliated with the Irrigation Ministry, Iman Sayed Ahmed.

576K feddans of cultivated rice spotted so far: Official

During an inspection visit at Qalyub hospital on Friday, Health Minister Ahmed Emad said the infections prevention system at the hospital is ailing and rundown despite the allocation of EGP 78m to the system for renovations.