Egypt reports 984 new coronavirus cases, 49 fatalities in 24 hours

CAIRO - 1 June 2020: The Health Ministry said Monday night that 984 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in Egypt to 262,650.

In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 49 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 15,096.

As many as 780 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 192,112 so far, the spokesman said.

Egypt’s COVID-19 treatment protocol has been updated with new effective drugs being added, said Dr. Hossam Hosny, the head for the scientific committee to combat Corona at the Ministry of Health and Population.

This comes in accordance with the international protocols in terms of dealing with COVID-19 pandemic.

Dr. Hosny added that the number of patients infected with Black Fungus disease are still limited, ensuring the availability of drugs curing this rare fungal infection.

“Egypt has added a lot of medications specialized in curing Black Fungus as well as dealing with Coronavirus,” he said during a scientific webinar discussing the developments of the epidemiological situation of Coronavirus, as well as the black fungus infections.