REUTERS/Eloisa LopezCAIRO - 16 February 2020: Egypt detected 613 new coronavirus cases upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 174,426, the Health Ministry announced in a statement. As many as 389 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 135,349 so far, the spokesman said. Egypt will receive five to eight million doses of coronavirus vaccine from an international vaccine alliance in the second half of this month, the Cabinet spokesman Nader Saad said. He also said Egypt's vaccine registration website will be launched soon, adding the delivery of the coronavirus vaccine this month is three months earlier than its scheduled date. The cabinet spokesman pointed to a decline in the coronavirus infections over the past period, noting the ICU occupancy rate at isolation hospitals declined to less than 40%.

Source: Egypt Today February 16, 2021 11:26 UTC