CAIRO - 5 December 2020: Egypt's Health Ministry reported in a Friday statement that 427 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases to 117,583. Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 19 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 6,732. As many as 109 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 103,191 so far, the spokesman said. A statement by the Cabinet on Friday, Nov.27 denied the reports circulated on some social media pages, alleging that public hospitals are covering up the real number of coronavirus-linked deaths in Egypt. The health ministry urged media outlets and social media users to verify the authenticity of any baseless information before publishing it to avoid causing confusion among citizens.

Source: Egypt Today December 05, 2020 11:15 UTC