Egypt’s Social Solidarity Ministry announced Saturday that it has supplied 6,185 beds at a cost of LE25 million in the dormitories of universities, youth centers and hostels across the country that are receiving coronavirus cases. She added that her ministry has prepared several places, now being operated by the Health Ministry, for this purpose. She said that the follow-up period for these cases will be at medically prepared places until they recover and are discharged. She said that 88 percent of infections in hospitalization suffer from minor symptoms, seven percent suffer from moderate symptoms, three percent suffer from severe symptoms, and two percent are in critical condition. Egypt on Friday confirmed 171 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s number of confirmed total cases so far to 2,844.

Source: Egypt Independent April 18, 2020 15:33 UTC