CAIRO - Foreign holdings of Egyptian treasury bills rebounded in July to 172.0 billion Egyptian pounds ($10.9 billion) from 122.44 billion at the end of June, the central bank said on Thursday.

In March, foreign investors sold more than half of their Egyptian pound treasury bill holdings as the coronavirus pandemic led them to pull money out of emerging markets.

Holdings fell again the following two months to reach a low of 111.5 billion pounds at the end of May compared with 310.65 billion at the end of February, according to central bank figures.

Foreign currency inflows were hurt by a virtual halt in tourism from mid-March, while remittances from workers outside of Egypt also suffered.

($1 = 15.7500 Egyptian pounds)

(Reporting by Patrick Werr Editing by Alexandra Hudson) ((patrick.werr@thomsonreuters.com;))