Egypt detects 573 new coronavirus cases, 52 fatalities

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Wed, 10 Feb 2021 - 11:01 GMT

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Wed, 10 Feb 2021 - 11:01 GMT

File Photo - Egypt's Minister of Health Hala Zayed

File Photo - Egypt's Minister of Health Hala Zayed

CAIRO - 10 February 2020: Egypt has dected on Tuesday 573 new coronavirus cases, upping the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 170,780, the Health Ministry announcedin a statement.

 

Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 52 coronavirus-linked deaths were registered over the past 24 hours, raising the overall death toll to 9,751 since the outset of the pandemic.



As many as 400 cases were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving the necessary medical care, taking the total number of recovered cases so far to 133,098, the spokesman added.

 

The ministry has allocated the hotlines, 105 and 15335, to receive citizens' inquiries about the coronavirus and infectious diseases. This is in addition to the WhatsApp number, 01553105105, and the Egypt Health application available on phones.

 

Egypt ranks 49th among world countries in terms of recovery rates (93.2 percent), and ranks 141st in the world in terms of total infections per one million people, (1,016 infections per 1 million).

 

For his part, Dr. Hossam Hosni, head of the Scientific Committee to Combat Corona, told Egypt Today that the Ministry of Health and Population has prepared a grand plan to confront influenza and Corona infection in the winter season, stressing that the schools’ plan to confront the Corona virus “guarantees full protection for all students.”

 

Egypt is planning to apply clinical trials on 6,000 people, and in case 215 persons were infected with COVID-19, the codes of the vaccine will be dismantled and the research will be halted. Then, they will wait for one year along with the measurement of antibodies of the volunteers, and then manufacture the vaccine.

 

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