Egypt detects 600 new Covid-19 cases with 48 deaths Saturday
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Sun, 21 Feb 2021 - 02:08 GMT
An image depicting President Sisi is seen on a bottle of sanitiser before a news conference announcing the details of a vaccination campaign against the coronavirus diseaseoutbreak, in Cairo 2020. REUTERS CAIRO - 21 February 2020: A total of 600 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases to 177,543, the Health Ministry said in a Saturday statement. Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 48 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 10,298. As many as 405 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 137,294 so far, the spokesman said.