CAIRO - 15 May 2020: The Health Ministry said late Friday night that 1,197 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 243, 317. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 56 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 14,206. Egypt will receive the raw material needed to produce Sinovac vaccine on May 18. According to the agreement between Sinovac and VACSERA, 40 million doses are to be produced in the first year. The ministry had declared earlier that 1.3 million people in Egypt have got vaccinated out of two million who registered on the website.
