Today, Friday, the Ministry of Health and Population of Egypt announced that 358 new cases of Corona virus were recorded, in the highest daily toll since the outbreak, in addition to 14 deaths due to it.
This is the highest outcome of daily infections recorded by Egypt, since it discovered its first infection with the virus in mid-February, as Friday's infections increased by 33% from its counterpart recorded Thursday, which amounted to 269 cases.
Despite a state of doubts resulting from the discovery of many injuries in several countries among tourists returning from Egypt, it was still insisting at the beginning of the crisis that there were no injuries in it, and then began announcing daily a few numbers that did not exceed 100 injured daily, before the number of injuries increased in The past days are up to the barrier of two hundred injuries a day.
According to Khaled Mujahid, a spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Health, the total number registered in Egypt with the new Corona virus as of Friday is 5,895 infections, including 1,460 cases that were cured and discharged from isolation and quarantine hospitals, and 406 deaths.
A health system suffers
Mujahid added that the number of cases whose results of laboratory transformation have turned from positive to negative for Corona virus has risen to 1875 cases, including the 1460 people who recovered.
According to Reuters news agency, the Egyptian authorities have a challenge to confront the virus in a country with a population of 100 million people, many of whom live in rural areas along the Nile River, and under a health system that suffers from severe overwork.
In turn, the Anatolia News Agency indicated that, as of Friday afternoon, the Coruna virus had infected more than 3 million and 339 thousand people worldwide, more than 235 thousand of them had died, and more than one million and 54 thousand had recovered, according to the Worldometer website that specializes in monitoring victims The virus.