Egyptian Health Ministry
The incident left no injuries or fatalities.
Egypt's health minister directed an increase in the number of medical teams in emergency care departments and the enhancement of medical equipment in hospitals located in Arish, Bir Al-Abd, and Sheikh Zuweid in North Sinai.
According to the ministry, the 20 injured individuals were transported to hospitals via 23 ambulances. Nineteen of them were admitted to Minya General Hospital, while one was taken to Minya University Hospitals
The casualty figures are preliminary, with ongoing rescue operations.
A ferry carrying workers in Giza's Monsha'et El Kanater sank on Saturday, resulting in the tragic deaths of at least three individuals and leaving four others hospitalized due to drowning-induced asphyxia, according to preliminary figures provided by the Ministry of Health.
Egypt received on Tuesday 19 Palestinian people, who were injured by the Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip, for treatment in Egyptian hospitals.
Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi ordered extending the 100 Healthy Days check-up campaign, which targets all population, for another 100 days.
In a statement on Friday, the Ministry of Health said its teams are also conducting examination for the nationals returning from Sudan to test them for infectious diseases.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced on Tuesday screening 84,000 young Egyptians and non-Egyptians in the first month of a presidential initiative for pre-marriage checkup.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced on Friday that more than 3.9 million babies have been examined under the presidential initiative to examine and treat hearing impairment in newborns.
In TV remarks to Al-Hadath Al-Youm, Tag El-Din said the coronavirus cases in Egypt show mild symptoms that are similar to the symptoms of common cold.
This comes in appreciation of the Egyptian state’s efforts in eliminating Hepatitis C as per the directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, a statement by the Egyptian Health Ministry read on Monday.
Also, 12 people have died of the virus over the past week, the minister noted.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health said on Saturday that the average number of daily coronavirus infections and deaths has hit five and two respectively over the past week.
The state has large quantities of vaccines and citizens should receive both vaccine doses., Tag El-Din told Sabah El-Kheir Ya Masr TV program on Wednesday.
The Ministry of Health and Population announced screening around 107,000 babies for genetic diseases since the launching of the presidential initiative for the early detection of such diseases on 13 July 2021.
The rate of vaccination against coronavirus in Egypt has reached 79.53 doses per 100 people, Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, the Minister of Higher Education and Acting Minister of Health said.
Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, the Minister of Higher Education and Acting Minister of Health, said more than 81.3 million coronavirus vaccine shots have been so far administered to Egyptian citizens and people residing in Egypt.
The ministry affirmed intensifying the presence of the required medical teams in the emergency departments of hospitals.
Egypt has fully vaccinated 33,820,506 people against coronavirus, Minister of Higher Education and Acting Minister of Health Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said on Tuesday.
