Egypt records 215 COVID-19 cases, 10 deaths

CAIRO – 26 April 2020: Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced Sunday 215 new coronavirus, COVID-19 confirmed cases including two foreigners, while 10 people died from the virus.

The new cases raise the total number of confirmed COVID-19 patients in Egypt to 4,534 and deaths to 317, Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Megahed said.

The number of coronavirus cases whose tests turned from positive to negative increased to 1,502, including 1,176 people who recovered from the virus. All positive cases were quarantined at hospitals, the spokesman said.

The ministry affirmed that death percent in Egypt has decreased to 7.1%.

The representative of the World Health Organization in Egypt John Jabbour, that the counts of coronavirus patients in Egypt are not disturbing.