300 Families Placed Under Quarantine in Dakahlia Governorate: Minister

Minister of Health and Population Dr. Hala Zayed said that health measures and quarantine are applied to about 300 families in Dakahlia Governorate, especially in the village where the first Egyptian woman died due to the coronavirus.

The Minister of Health added that the state is taking all necessary measures to confront the coronavirus, which is spread in many countries, noting that the ministry is conducting tests for contacts with those who are infected, and the prevention of gatherings is very important not to spread the virus.

In a statement, the Ministry said that the first case is for a German national in Luxor governorate. He was 72, while the second confirmed death is for a 50-year old Egyptian man from Dakahlia governorate, who was tested positive after a contact with a 60-year-old woman who died because of the virus on Thursday.

The Ministry’s spokesperson Khaled Mujahid added that Egypt recorded 40 new coronavirus infected cases, bringing the total of cases detected in the country to 166.

Last week, the government started adopting the second scenario which included the closure of schools and universities for two weeks and the suspension of all air flights coming to Egypt. 

On Monday, the Ministry of Health and Population announced the registration of 40 new cases that proved positive for its new coronavirus (Covid-19), bringing the number of infected people to 166, in addition to recording two new deaths.

On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the coronavirus, which is spreading around the world, a “global pandemic; however it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.

According to the organisation, the number of COVID-19 infections outside China has doubled in the past two weeks, and the number of countries hit by the epidemic has tripled.

“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.