Egypt reports 610 new coronavirus cases, 53 new deaths

CAIRO - 11 February 2021: The Ministry of Health announced on Thursday that 610 new coronavirus cases were detected, raising the total number of infected cases in the country to 171,390.

 

A total of 53 coronavirus-linked deaths were registered over the past 24 hours, raising the overall death toll to 9,804 since the outset of the pandemic, said the Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed in a press statement.

 

As many as 233 cases were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving the necessary medical care, taking the total number of recovered cases so far to 133,331, 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.