FILE PHOTO: Canan Emcan, 31, chief nurse of the infection and virologist ward of the university clinic of Essen closes a sample of a smear test to be used in case of coronavirus patients during a media event in Essen, Germany, March 5, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfg
CAIRO – 14 March 2020: The Egyptian Health Ministry on Friday confirmed 13 new Coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, bringing the total number of infections to 93.
The thirteen cases who tested positive for the new Covid-19 include eight foreigners and five Egyptians, the ministry said, adding that the new cases had dealt with the previously confirmed cases.
The ministry’s spokesman Khaled Megahed, said out of 93; results for 32 cases turned from positive to negative, and only two died, including an Egyptian woman and German man.
Covid 19 disease was announced a global pandemic by the World Health Organization on Tuesday evening after it infected 118,000 people in 114 countries and claimed the lives of 4,291 so far.
“WHO is deeply concerned by the alarming levels of the coronavirus spread, severity & inaction, & expects to see the number of cases, deaths & affected countries climb even higher. Therefore, we made the assessment that COVID19 can be characterized as a pandemic,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced in a press conference.
“In the past two weeks, the number of cases of COVID-19 outside China has increased 13-fold, and the number of affected countries has tripled” he added, continuing “In the days and weeks ahead, we expect to see the number of cases, the number of deaths, and the number of affected countries climb even higher.”
WHO announced that the declaration of the pandemic does not change the necessity to follow the hygienic instructions to avoid the virus infection.
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