An image depicting Egyptian President al-Sisi is seen on a bottle of sanitiser before a news conference announcing details of a vaccination campaign against coronavirus disease outbreak, in Cairo 2020. REUTERSCAIRO - 7 August 2020: The Health Ministry said Friday that 57 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country to 284,580. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said five patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,562. As many as 321 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 232,601 so far, the spokesman said. Egypt will receive 148.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine between August and the year end, Health Minister Hala Zayed said last month.

Source: Egypt Today August 07, 2021 11:34 UTC