Egypt registers 342 new COVID-19 cases, 13 deaths

CAIRO - 19 November 2020: Egypt's Health Ministry said in a statement that 342 new coronavirus cases were detected on Thursday, upping the total number of confirmed cases in Egypt since the beginning of the outbreak to 111,955.

The spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 13 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 6,508.

As many as 143 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 101,564 so far, the spokesman said.