Egypt's COVID-19 recovery rate hikes to 28.1%, highest since mid-February: Health Ministry

CAIRO – 8 July 2020: COVID-19 patient's recovery rate in Egypt hiked to 28.1 percent, marking highest rate since the beginning of the crisis in mid-February, Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population revealed.

It was added that there is a stability in the death rate at 4.5 percent, explaining that Egypt has so far recorded 3.489 deaths, while the total number of COVID-19 cases has reached 77,279.

The Ministry of Health also explained that the total of those recovered from the virus increased to 21,718 cases.

The Ministry of Health and Population also confirmed in a statement that Egypt is completely safe from the bubonic plague that has recently appeared in China.

The statement indicated that the ministry has a strong surveillance system that addresses 41 diseases and epidemics and that is capable of protecting society from any epidemiological risks that come from abroad.

 The Ministry of Health explained that plagueisa bacterial infection and that one case appeared in the Chinese state of Mongolia and was isolated and dealt with quickly. Bacterial infectionscan be treated withantibiotics, so plague has a cure.

For his part, Mohamed Abdel-Fattah, head of the Central Department for Preventive Medicine Affairs at the Ministry of Health, told Egypt Today that the World Health Organization confirmed that there is no need to worry regarding the emergence of the plague.

He also said that bacterial infections are treated by antibiotics, while viral infections still cause concern because they have no cure, as the existing drugs limit the activity and reproduction of the virus only.

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