The Supreme Authority of the Tourism and Hotel Workers' Coalition announced that Ala Al-Din Mahmoud Abdel-Majid, Director of the Laundry Department, at the Hilton Heliopolis Hotel died with COVID-19 early today.
The deceased died at the quarantine hospital at the Egyptian city of May 15.
Noteworthy, the Egyptian Health Ministry said on Friday 41 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 536,” Khaled Megahed, the ministry’s spokesman said in a statement.
Six more deaths were confirmed; raising the total number to 30.
The new fatalities include a 75-year-old German woman and five Egyptians whose ages range between 50 and 65 years old. They are from Cairo and Damietta governorates.
“Up to 116 COVID-19 patients have totally recovered so far,” the spokesman said.
“Three French nationals and eleven Egyptians were among the recovered patients today,” he added.
Also, the number of coronavirus patients who had now been retested for the virus and had received negative results has reached 147, after getting excellent treatment in coordination with the World Health Organization (WHO).
The ministry has stepped up precautionary measures in the affected governorates and intensified campaigns to spread awareness about infectious diseases.
Megahed stressed that the ministry announced all positive and suspected cases nationwide.
The ministry raises its preparedness at all the country’s ports and airports to monitor the virus developments, receiving inquires from citizens about the virus through its hotline 105 or 15335.
The coronavirus has killed more than 25,044 people and infected more than 552,000 around the world.
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