The Coordination Committee of Party's Youth Leaders and Politicians (CPYP) in Egypt has launched an awareness-raising campaign in streets, addressing citizens to stay home to curb spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic.
The campaign’s slogan is chosen to be "Protect yourself... Protect your country".
The CPYP confirmed that the Egyptian citizens should stay home for a period of 15 days, stressing that it is preferable to stay at home for a couple of days instead of finding our homes empty later when the virus kills our families.
Thus, the campaign urges the citizens to adhere to the instructions of the government and the Ministry of Health regarding the preventive measures.
The Coordination Committee stressed that at the present time it is necessary for everyone to raise awareness and not underestimate this novel virus.
On Saturday, President Abdel Fattah El Sisi issued a decision appointing Dr. Mohamed Awad Taj El-Din as advisor to the President of the Republic for health and protection.
In this regard, the Ministry of Health and Population announced that the number of cases whose laboratory results had been transformed from positive to negative for the new coronavirus (COVID-19) had increased to 73 cases.
The Health Ministry said on Saturday nine new coronavirus cases were detected, all of them are Egyptians, who were in contact with other positive cases.
“This upped the total number of confirmed cases to 294,” Khaled Megahed, the ministry’s spokesman, said in a statement.
“All positive cases were quarantined at hospitals and they are all stable,” he added.
Two more deaths were confirmed, raising the total number to 10.
The new fatalities were a 68-year-old Egyptian woman and a 75-year-old man. Both of them are from Giza governorate.
"With more than 210,000 cases reported and 9,000 deaths worldwide, each day brings a new and tragic turn,” said Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization.
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