Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Dr. Hala Zayed confirmed that she and the delegation accompanying her in China underwent two analyzes, to ensure that they are free of the new Corona virus, and that all analyzes are negative for the virus, explaining that if she was returning from Wuhan in China, the focus of the virus outbreak, she would have been detained For 14 days in quarantine.
Minister Hala Zayed added, in her first phone call after her return from Beijing, to the "Egypt Can" program, which is shown on the DMC screen, with the journalist Ahmed Fayek, that any person returning from China or any country with a spread of the Corona virus is subject to two analyzes. "BCR", between each analysis and the other 48 hours in order to confirm the negativity of the virus, and this is what was subjected to it and the delegation that accompanied her.
And she continued: «I left China and stayed three days outside Egypt, and during this period I conducted the analysis, and then I did a second analysis at the airport on Friday, and« Praise be to God the analysis was negative for me and the delegation accompanying me. »
The Minister of Health, and the accompanying delegation, arrived with the delegation on Friday morning, to the Cairo International Airport from the People's Republic of China on a journey that lasted for nearly a week, in which the Minister carried a message of solidarity from President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi to the People's Republic of China and delivered Egypt's gift to the Chinese people Protective supplies.
Upon the arrival of the minister, the quarantine team at Cairo Airport applied preventive and precautionary measures with the minister and the accompanying delegation by measuring the body temperature and making sure that there are no respiratory symptoms.
Samples were also drawn from the Minister and the accompanying delegation and sent to the central laboratories.
The Minister and the accompanying delegation obtained the health monitoring cards for them, which are cards in which all the information of the arriving passenger is recorded from the place of residence in Egypt and a number to communicate with,
For daily medical examinations, until the estimated 14-day incubation period ends.
On the other hand, the Minister of Health announced, according to the Egyptian newspaper Al-Watan, that analyzes of 2,166 suspected cases of the new Corona virus (Covid-19) and influenza in Egypt, starting from last January to Friday, confirmed that all of them were negative, except for 15 cases it was proven Positive analyzes.
The minister said that the 15 positive cases, including 12 cases that were discovered on Friday carrying the virus, without any symptoms on board one of the Nile ships coming from Aswan Governorate to Luxor Governorate, for Egyptians working on the ship, and they were transferred to the hospital designated for isolation, noting that the remaining cases were mixed She was subjected to a 14-day quarantine "disease incubation period", where their health is monitored and reassured.