Egypt detects 101 new coronavirus cases, 4 deaths Sunday

CAIRO - 16 August 2020: Egypt's Health Ministry said that 101 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country to 285,358.

In a statement on Saturday, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said four patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,619.

As many as 233 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 234,114 so far, the spokesman said.

Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced, Monday, that five different vaccines are now available in nearly 539 vaccine centers around the country against coronavirus.

The Ministry explained that all of the five vaccines have emergency approvals from the Egyptian Medicines Authority.

The Health Ministry Spokesperson Khaled Megahed noted that the available vaccines are: Sputnik V, Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, Johnson& Johnson and Sinovac.

He called on all citizens to register online [http://www.egcovac.mohp.gov.eg] and get vaccinated against COVID-19.