Egypt reports 423 new infections, 35 deaths on Thursday

CAIRO - 25 June 2021: The Health Ministry said that 423 new coronavirus cases were detected on Thursday, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country to 279,184.

In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 35 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,002.

As many as 781 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 208,192 so far, the spokesman said.

Egypt’s Ministry of Health targets vaccinating 40 percent of the population by the end of the current year, stated Head of Central Department of Health Affairs Mohamed Abdel Fattah.

There are more than 400 centers across the country to vaccinate citizens against Coronavirus, he said.