Egypt records 269 new coronavirus cases, 12 deaths

CAIRO, 30 April2020 : Egypt recorded, Thursday 269 new coronavirus cases and 12 deaths, which raises the total infected patients of COVID-19 to 5,537 and the total deaths to 392 according to Health Minster’s daily briefing.

Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Megahed added that 46 patients, were discharged from the hospital after being confirmed that they are completely recovered from the viruse, this also raises the number of recovered cases to 1,381 out of 1,780 who had been retested for the virus and had received negative results.

On Thursday, North Sinai recorded its first infection with coronavirus, and isolated the case in Be’r el-Abd Hospital, according to a statement by the Health Directorate in North Sinai.

The statement said, “The hospital took all the precautionary and treatment measures as per the adopted protocol in dealing with the suspected cases with COVID-19.”

“The monitoring team carried out epidemiological investigations, clearance process of the case’s house, and followed up the procedures of tracking those who came in contact with the positive COVID-19 case,” added the statement.

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, Minister Hala Zayed said.

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.