Dr. Omar Abu Al-Atta, a WHO surveillance officer, said that Egypt has not yet reached the peak of infection with the Coronavirus.
“We have a golden opportunity to reduce rates of infection with the Corona virus and they should be used to reduce the number of infections,” he added during a telephone interview with the journalist Ahmed Moussa on “On My Responsibility” program broadcast on the channel “Echo of the Country”.
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He emphasized that the number of Corona virus infections reached 3032 cases in the ninth week of the discovery of the first case in Egypt, noting that the coherent health system is helping to overcome the crisis.
He pointed out that activating the precautionary measures taken by the state helps to reduce the rate of infections, explaining that facing the virus needs a collective and not individual confrontation, including the Ministry of Health and Society.
And he added, that the countries that failed to tackle the Corona virus increased their infection rate, stressing that no country has a surveillance system that enables it to detect all infected cases.
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The Ministry of Health and Population announced today, Saturday, that 55 of those infected with the Corona virus have been discharged from isolation and quarantine hospitals, all Egyptians, after receiving the necessary medical care and complete recovery according to the guidelines of the World Health Organization, bringing the total of those recovering from the virus to 701 cases until today.
A statement by the Ministry clarified that the number of cases whose laboratory results were converted from positive to negative for Corona virus (Covid-19) increased to 980 cases, including the 701 recovered.
He added that 188 new cases that proved positive for laboratory analysis of the virus, all Egyptians, were registered as part of the ministry’s surveillance and investigation procedures, according to the guidelines of the World Health Organization, pointing to the death of 19 cases.
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