Egypt’s Health and Population Ministry announced Saturday that recovery rates from coronavirus in isolation hospitals have increased to 75.5 percent, after 162,170 cases recovered as of Friday. A Friday statement from the ministry said that 841 new cases had been recorded that tested positive for the virus, alongside 42 new deaths. The statement continued that the total cases that have registered in Egypt with the coronavirus is 214,639, including 12,653 deaths. The vaccine should cost no more than LE200 per person, Health Minister Hala Zayed announced, with low-income folks eligible to get their doses for free. Egypt is currently using China’s Sinopharm vaccine and the UK’s AstraOxford vaccine.

Source: Egypt Independent April 17, 2021 14:36 UTC