Egypt registers 242 infections, 12 fatalities

CAIRO - 17 November 2020: Egypt's Ministry of Health announced on Monday in a statement that 242 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 111,009.

According to a spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed,12 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the overall death toll to 6,465 since the outset of the pandemic.

As many as 133 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving the necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases so far to 101,179, the spokesman added.

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.