Egypt detects 581 new coronavirus cases, 42 fatalities – EgyptToday

  • Date: 07-Mar-2021
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Egypt detects 581 new coronavirus cases, 42 fatalities – EgyptToday

An employee shows the Moderna coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Northwell Health's Long Island Jewish Valley Stream hospital in New York, U.S., December 21, 2020. REUTERS/Eduardo Munoz/File Photo







CAIRO - 3 March 2020: Egypt's Health Ministry said in a Tuesday statement that 581 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 183,591.

 

Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 42 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 10,778.



As many as 308 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 141,655 so far, the spokesman said.

 

Egyptian senior citizens (aged above 40) will be able to register for anti-Coronavirus vaccine online starting from Feb 28.

 

 

After finalizing the vaccination of medical staff at 40 quarantine hospitals for