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More than 10,000 people in Egypt have died of Covid-19, the Ministry of Health and Population’s latest daily figures show.
The 613 new infections and 56 deaths registered on Monday brought the total number of official coronavirus cases to 174,426 and deaths to 10,050. Globally, the pandemic has infected more than 27.6 million people and caused more than 2.4 million deaths.
Doctors and experts said the actual number of infections and deaths in Egypt is probably much higher due to limited testing, the exclusion of asymptomatic cases and the lack of thorough investigations into causes of death.
10,000 is very, very, very low. I speculate that it’s at least 10 times more than that
A senior leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood movement has died of a heart attack in the notorious Tora Prison in Cairo, Egyptian security sources have said.
Essam el-Erian, who was sentenced to several life sentences following the military coup against Egypt’s first democratically elected president Mohamed Morsi, died at the age of 66.
El-Erian had been moved to a prison hospital after suffering a heart attack and died during treatment, two prison sources told Reuters news agency.
“We were informed of his death by prison authorities … they told us the death was natural,” a lawyer representing the Muslim Brotherhood, Abdel Moneim Abdel-Maqsoud, said in a statement to local media.
2021-01-14 11:38:11 GMT2021-01-14 19:38:11(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) With more evidence suggesting their efficacy and safety, Chinese vaccines have been registered and used in more countries, especially those in the developing world.
Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Wednesday received a COVID-19 vaccine shot developed by China s biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech.
The country s Food and Drug Control Agency on Monday issued an emergency use authorization for the Chinese vaccine.
Also on Wednesday, Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca received the Sinovac vaccine, shortly after the vaccine was granted emergency authorization in Turkey.
Turkey began mass vaccination on Thursday, starting with health workers, Koca told reporters.
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How Egypt’s authoritarianism is harming its Covid response The Egyptian government seems more interested in suppressing negative coverage and maintaining the illusion of control than tackling the country s healthcare crisis. A camera pans around a hospital ward, showing unmoving bodies atop hospital beds. They re all dead, says the man shooting the video, blaming a lack of medical oxygen. Nurses struggle to resuscitate a patient, and another crouches on the floor nearby in shock. The scene from Hussainiya hospital in Egypt s Sharqiyah province went viral, sparking fears that Egypt s strained healthcare system is struggling to cope with the Covid-19 pandemic. It was quickly joined by other videos, such as one showing a woman screaming for help inside Zeftah hospital in Gharbiyah, and a bed-bound man in Damanhour, in Egypt s Nile Delta, who held an oxygen mask as he described supplies running out. Join us, minister, he wheezed, asking local health officials to come t