Egypt’s Health Ministry on Monday confirmed 782 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total number of confirmed cases up to 268,754The total number of COVID-19-related deaths has now reached 15,399 nationwide, after the ministry announced 47 deaths. And 677 patients were discharged from quarantine at isolation hospitals, raising Egypt’s total number of fully-recovered cases to 197,281. A country-wide partial lockdown aimed at curbing cases that has been in place since May 6 ended on Tuesday. All restaurants, cafés, shops, and malls can now resume normal business hours and stay open later than the previously enforced 9 pm curfew. Egypt is currently using China’s Sinopharm vaccine and the UK’s AstraOxford vaccine, and it has plans to soon begin locally manufacturing China’s Sinovac vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik-V.
