An Egyptian man fled from an isolation hospital in al-Delingat city in Egypt’s Beheira Governorate after testing positive for coronavirus. Head of al-Delingat’s local council Kamel Ghattas said that the man escaped from Kafr al-Dawar Hospital after it was found that he had contracted the novel coronavirus. “His family turned him in to the police, and the man has been taken back to the hospital,” Ghattas said. Egypt on Tuesday confirmed 789 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s number of confirmed total cases so far to 18,756. The total number of COVID-19 deaths has now reached 797 nationwide, after announcing 14 deaths.

Source: Egypt Independent May 27, 2020 15:11 UTC