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Egypt's State Information Services (SIS) announced on Tuesday afternoon that the press accreditation of The Guardian's Cairo correspondent Ruth Michaelson has been revoked. According to SIS, the correspondent's accreditation was revoked as a result of her recent article on the number of COVID-19 cases in Egypt which failed to meet 'journalistic standards'. SIS also issued a warning to New York Times correspondent Declan Walsh who had tweeted figures from a University of Toronto scientific study. The decision by SIS came…