CAIRO – 3 August 2020: Statistics for the Ministry of Health and Population revealed, Monday that the recovery rates for people infected with coronavirus in quarantine hospitals have risen to 44.9 percent for the first time since the beginning of the crisis.
On July 26, head of the Health Ministry’s coronavirus (COVID-19) committee Hossam Hosni said that Egypt has so far received voluntary plasma donors in 15 centers nationwide, He added that convalescent plasma of 420 donors has been accepted, with a success rate of 60 percent in critical and severe cases.
The country now has a large strategic stock of convalescent plasma, Hosni said. injection.
Officials’ remarks on the efficiency of plasma treatment for serious coronavirus cases are contradictory.
Earlier in July, Noha Essam, advisor to the Health Minister told Egypt Today that plasma treatment has shown significant and strong results but it does not work with all cases. Essam added that plasma therapy did not work with cases in critical conditions.
However, in June, Zayed stated that the convalescent plasma transfusion experiment for patients with critical coronavirus (COVID-19) symptoms has shown successful results in Egypt.
The experiment to inject convalescent plasma has contributed to reducing the need for ventilators and increasing the number of recoveries, Zayed said.
On Sunday Egypt recorded 167 new coronavirus cases, upping the total number of confirmed cases to 94483.
In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 31 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 4865.
As many as 1318 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 42445 so far, the spokesman said.
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