FILE - Healthcare workers wheel the bodies of deceased people from the Wyckoff Heights Medical Center during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, New York, U.S., April 4, 2020 – Reuters/Andrew Kelly
CAIRO – 4 May 2020: The current coronavirus (COVID-19) mortality rate in Egypt is 6.6 percent, according to the Health Ministry’s official figures on Sunday, after a total of 429 cases have officially died of the novel virus, while deaths worldwide almost reached 250,000.
In mid-April, the official death rate in Egypt, according to daily figures, reached 7.5%.
The recovered cases, according to the figures, represent 24.1 people per 100, while the number of those whose test results turned from positive to negative are 2,041, representing 31.5 percent.
Ahmed Al-Sobky, assistant minister of health, on Monday said there is so far 348 new coronavirus cases. If the figures are approved by the ministry’s daily report, which is usually issued around 7 p.m, it would be one of the highest daily counts in the northeastern African country.
In a meeting with the health committee of the Egyptian House of Representatives (Parliament), Sobki said the total number of coronavirus cases and deaths reached 6,813 and 436 respectively.
The number of cases whose results turned from positive to negative is 2,139, Sobki said, including 1,632 people who totally recovered.
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Plasma treatment
The Egyptian Health Ministry will start injecting plasma of patients who have recovered from the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) into severely ill patients with the novel virus, the ministry quoted Minister Hala Zayed as saying late in April.
Plasma from recovered cases have the antibodies required to battle the virus inside other patients and curb its replication.
Zayed said that Egypt has the required experience in the convalescent plasma therapy and that the ministry is working hard through scientific research to find treatment for coronavirus patients.
Plasma were extracted from six people who have recovered from coronavirus, the ministry’s statement revealed, and tests indicated that three of them were good to use.
Plasma was already injected into one patient, the ministry said, adding that other patients will also undergo the same treatment, in accordance with the research protocol in this regard. The results will be continuously announced, said the statement.
Once patients respond to treatment, convalescent plasma therapy will be widely applied, through inviting recovered people to donate plasma, in order to help save patients who are in critical condition, the ministry added.
Earlier, Egypt started treating 50 coronavirus patients with the Japanese antiviral drug Avigan, announced Mohamed Tag El-Deen, the Advisor for Health Affairs to President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Friday.
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