Egypt reports 42 new coronavirus cases, 7 deaths on Thursday

CAIRO – 30 July 2021: The Health Ministry said 42 new coronavirus cases were detected on Thursday, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 284,170.

In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said seven patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,514.

As many as 331 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 229,167 so far, the spokesman said.

Egypt will receive 148.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine as of August till the year end, Health Minister Hala Zayed said on Thursday.

The doses will be sufficient to inoculate 83.7 million citizens, the minister said during the weekly cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli at the cabinet headquarters in new Alamein city.

New quantities of China's Sinovac COVID-19 raw materials are to arrive in the country in August to manufacture 70.2 million jabs, she said.

The new arrivals will also include 20 million doses of Sputnik vaccine, 20 million doses of Johnson &Johnson vaccine, 35.6 million of AstraZeneca and 2.4 million of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, she added.

She noted that infection and death rates are remarkably declining in the country.