Egypt’s recovery rates of COVID-19 hit 78%

CAIRO – 22 December 2020: Ministry of Health announced that the recovery rates from Coronavirus pandemic at isolation hospitals hit 78 percent, after the total number of recovered cases have reached 132,375 .

The total number of infections that was registered in Egypt thusfar until Monday is 169,640  cases, including 132,375 cases that have been cured, and 9,651 deaths.

The ministry has allocated the hotlines, 105 and 15335, to receive citizens' inquiries about the coronavirus and infectious diseases. This is in addition to the WhatsApp number, 01553105105, and the Egypt Health application available on phones.

Egypt ranks 49th among world countries in terms of recovery rates (93.2 percent), and ranks 141st in the world in terms of total infections per one million people, (1,016 infections per 1 million).

For his part, Dr. Hossam Hosni, head of the Scientific Committee to Combat Corona, told Egypt Today that the Ministry of Health and Population has prepared a grand plan to confront influenza and Corona infection in the winter season, stressing that the schools’ plan to confront the Corona virus “guarantees full protection for all students.”

Egypt is planning to apply clinical trials on 6,000 people, and in case 215 persons were infected with COVID-19, the codes of the vaccine will be dismantled and the research will be halted. Then, they will wait for one year along with the measurement of antibodies of the volunteers, and then manufacture the vaccine.