Egypt reports 1,001 new coronavirus cases with 56 deaths

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Egypt Today staff

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Sat, 09 Jan 2021 - 10:27 GMT

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Egypt Today staff

Sat, 09 Jan 2021 - 10:27 GMT

Iranian family wear protective masks to prevent contracting a coronavirus, as they stand at Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran February 20, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS

Iranian family wear protective masks to prevent contracting a coronavirus, as they stand at Grand Bazaar in Tehran, Iran February 20, 2020. WANA (West Asia News Agency)/Nazanin Tabatabaee via REUTERS

CAIRO - 9 January 2020: Egypt's Health Ministry said in Friday statement that 1,001 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases to 147,810.


Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 56 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 8,085.



As many as 754 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 117,529 so far, the spokesman said.

 

In December, Health Minister officially announced that Egypt is facing the second wave of coronavirus.
 
 
The Cabinet, in response, announced further measures to curb the spread of the novel virus, including imposing an immediate fine on people not wearing face masks in closed places and public transportation. The decision came into effect on Sunday January 3.
 
 
Cabinet spokesman Nader Saad, in remarks to media in December, said the ventilator use rose to 42 percent and that Egypt has prepared 363 hospitals for quarantine, the same number of hospitals for quarantine as that it prepared during the peak of the first wave.

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