Vice-dean of Cairo’s faculty of dentistry tested positive for COVID-19

CAIRO – 5 May 2020: Cairo University spokesperson, Mahmoud Alam El-Deen, said Monday that the infection control committee sorted the persons who dealt with the dean of the faculty of dentistry who tested positive for COVID-19 last week.

Alam El-Deen said the committee tested 31 persons and all of the results came negative for Coronavirus except for one. The vice-dean of the faculty of dentistry, Essam Aziz, was tested positive for COVID-19 and referred to Al Kasr al Aini hospital to receive treatment at the hospital’s isolation department dedicated to Cairo University’s staff members.

The vice-dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Hisham El-Saket, died Sunday after contracting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).

In April, Hala Salah, dean of the faculty said 17 staff members at Al- Kasr Al-Aini Teaching Hospital affiliated to the faculty tested positive for coronavirus.

In remarks to “Al-Hikaya” talk show on MBC channel, Salah added that the infected staff members include doctors, nurses, and employees, noting that the Saket was one of the registered COVID-19 cases.

On Thursday, dean of the Faculty of Dentistry at the Cairo University located in Greater Cairo’s Giza governorate tested positive for coronavirus (COVID-19), the university’s spokesman said, adding that 17 contacts were traced and examined.

The administration of university announced full closure of the affected department, which houses many administration offices and some clinics, for 14 days, Spokesman Mahmoud Alam El-Deen said.

Egypt registered on Sunday 348 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and 7 deaths over the last 24 hours, raising the total infected patients to 6,813 and the mortality to 436 deaths, according to the Health Minister’s daily briefing.

A total of 70 patients were discharged from the hospital after being confirmed that they are completely recovered from the viruses, bringing the number of recovered cases to 1,632 out of 2,139 who had been retested for the virus and had received negative results.

The current COVID-19 mortality rate in Egypt is 6.6 percent, according to the Health Ministry’s official figures on Sunday, after a total of 429 cases have officially died of the novel virus, while deaths worldwide almost reached 250,000.