FILE: A member of the medical staff shows a used sample container at a test center for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Berlin, Germany, April 6, 2020. - ReutersCAIRO – 21 July 2021: Egypt's Health Ministry announced that 51 new coronavirus cases were detected on Tuesday, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country to 283,813. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Dr Khaled Megahed said five patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,457. As many as 769 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 225,068 so far, the spokesman said. Egypt successfully is past a third wave of the pandemic, reporting daily coronavirus counts that are less than 100 for the first time since October last year.
