Official Egyptian social and economic data do not provide a reliable picture of the reality of life within the country due to numerous irregularities, but they are mostly uncritically adopted by external actors, write Stephen Roll & Salima Batsi. Since coming to power in 2014, the Sisi regime's official statistics paint a different picture to the reality on the ground in Egypt [Getty] Egypt has so far fared extremely well in the Covid-19 pandemic - at least according to their official figures.
