CAIRO, June 7 (NNN-XINHUA) – Egypt registered on Saturday, 1,497 daily new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections to 32,612, said the health ministry.
This is the 10th consecutive day for Egypt’s COVID-19 daily infections to exceed 1,000.
Death toll from the disease rose to 1,198 after 32 fatalities were added, health ministry spokesman, Khaled Megahed, said in a statement.
The spokesman said, 380 patients left hospitals in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of recoveries in the country to 8,538.
Egypt announced its first confirmed COVID-19 case on Feb 14, and the first death from the highly infectious virus on Mar 8, both foreigners.
Since Mar 25, the Egyptian government imposed night curfew, of between nine and 13 hours, to curb the spread of the deadly virus.
The current nine-hour curfew will continue until mid-June, when the government will consider easing relevant restrictions, amid a coexistence plan to maintain anti-virus precautionary measures.
The government already started gradual reopening of services and offices, and allowed reopening of about 100 hotels for local tourists with 50-percent capacity after they were given safety certificates.– NNN-XINHUA
