Egyptian media reported that the journalist in the weekly "Al-Khamis" newspaper, Mahmoud Riad, died of infection from the emerging corona virus, as the first victims of the epidemic among journalists in Egypt.
A member of the Press Syndicate Council, Hisham Younis, said that the colleague Mahmoud Riad died today from contracting the virus, noting that the deceased was not working after the newspaper was closed, "and he only went out looking for an opportunity here or there."
The journalist Mahmoud Riyadh had complained in a post on his Facebook page of the medical negligence of people living with HIV in Egypt, and said, "People who ask (who ask) about my health ... Corona virus is continuous tiredness and high temperature fire (very) 14 days, during During that time, I communicated with Health No. 105, nonsense (they say to you) that you are failing in your health. "
He added that he decided to go to fevers "to continue suffering and disease," noting that the result of the analysis that takes 15 minutes in the world takes 48 hours in Egypt.
He said that any error in the examination requires waiting for a full week. "Despatch (these seven) days are they not enough (is it not enough) for anyone to die, as happened with many, I have been tortured for 14 days ... Your prayers, and no one (silence) nobody silences himself, And God has commanded it before and after, and so far, there are no serious steps. "
Today in Egypt, the largest number of victims of the emerging coronavirus has been recorded, with medical authorities announcing twenty deaths and 248 infections, bringing the total to 4,782.