CAIRO - 13 July 2020: Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed said Egypt’s political leadership is keen to avoid the coronavirus pandemic’s impact on plans and efforts that are meant to improve public health. Those consequences have prompted us more and more to coordinate efforts, support capabilities and promote our cooperation, she added. The Health Ministry said Monday night that 110 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 283,212. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said seven patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,403. As many as 879 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 219,291 so far, the spokesman said.
