The Ministry of Health in Egypt confirmed on Monday the deaths of two cases, who were infected by the Coronavirus, raising the country's death toll to four.
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 Dakhalia 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.
On Thursday March 12, Egypt reported the second coronavirus case for the 60-year-old Egyptian woman from Dakhalia governorate, while the first death was recorded on March 8 for a German national. He was 60.
On Wednesday, March 11, 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.
“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.
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