CAIRO - 2 August 2020: The Health Ministry said Sunday night that 49 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country to 284,311. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said four patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,528. When these codes are scanned by mobile phones, the certificate holder’s data, photo and status as regards the virus vaccine will appear. Work is underway to finalize a mobile application named “Egypt Health Passport” to be used at airports. Passengers will register their data then the application will be able to recognize their vaccine certificates and show whether they are vaccinated or not.

Source: Egypt Today July 31, 2021 14:03 UTC