Age group 30-49 has highest recovery rate: Health Min.

CAIRO – 13 May 2020: Patients between the ages of 30 to 39 had the highest number of cases who recovered from coronavirus, represented in 318 cases, followed by 288 people in the age group between 40 to 49, said Egypt’s Health Minister Hala Zayed on Wednesday.

This comes while Egypt has reported a drop in the daily coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, according to the official figures provided by the ministry, compared to the earlier few days. On Tuesday, the ministry said it recorded 347 new cases, bringing the total number to 10,093.

The average number of days patients spend at quarantine is 11.6 days, Zayed said in a ministerial meeting headed by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli.

She added that the financial cost of flights bringing Egyptian people stranded abroad, whose passengers are quarantined as an obligatory procedure, between May 3 to 9 is around LE 28 million ($1.78 million). The measures included medical services and PCR tests.

On April 22nd, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi noted that around 3,500 Egyptians are stranded abroad over coronavirus, affirming that authorities are committed to bringing them back despite "hard circumstances".

The minister also reviewed the state’s plan to continue providing medical services to the coronavirus patients. This plan is based on governing and managing the crisis, organizing the provision of medical services, preserving and redistributing human resources, highlighting mechanisms to keep medicine and medical equipment available, training medical staff and spreading awareness.

On Tuesday, Egypt has recorded 11 deaths due to coronavirus, which raises the total deaths to 544, according to the ministry’s daily briefing.

Health Ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed said that the number of coronavirus cases whose tests turned from positive to negative increased to 2,811, including 2,326 people who recovered from the virus.

"All positive cases were quarantined at hospitals," the spokesman said.