Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El Sisi warned about attempts made by the "homeland's enemies" to cast doubt against the state’s efforts and accomplishments in combating coronavirus.
“We stand together at an important moment in the history of the homeland in the face of the coronavirus pandemic, which requires everyone to unite to combat this ordeal safely and maintain the success we have achieved in various fields,” Sisi wrote on his Facebook and Twitter on Thursday.
The President continued: “Amid the efforts, the Egyptian government and its people make in facing this pandemic and the continuous implementation of development plans and maintaining economic stability in these most difficult circumstances, the homeland's enemies are trying to question the state’s efforts and accomplishments.”
Sisi affirmed his high confidence in the Egyptians and their ability to confront and respond to these campaigns.
On Wednesday, Egypt recorded 910 new coronavirus cases, its highest daily record so far, bringing the total cases to 19,666.
Meanwhile, the county’s death toll has recorded nineteen more deaths, raising the total number to 816.
Egypt’s Health Ministry spokesman, Khaled Megahed revealed in a press statement that there are several governorates witnessed a decline in the number of daily infections including Port Said, South Sinai, Damietta, and the Red Sea, with Cairo and Giza governorates the highest.
More about coronavirus
The novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has infected more than one million people and killed over 234,139 worldwide. It also hit several celebrities and top political figures around the world.
The virus is a new member of the Coronaviruses group, which was never identified in humans. The viruses that cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases, its family also includes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV).
Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Humans and animals such as mammals and birds can be affected by the disease.
The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”.
On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19, taken from the words “corona”, “virus” and “disease”.
In December 2019, an outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.
On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 800,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.
However, it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.
“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.
“Describing the situation as a pandemic does not change the assessment of the threat posed by the Coronavirus,” the WHO director-general stressed.
Transmission of viruses between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.
Coronavirus can also be transmitted by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes.
It is known that older people appear to be more vulnerable to the effects of the emerging virus.
The virus caused complete paralysis in all activities and events with large gatherings worldwide due to concerns over the spread of the virus.
People across the globe partake in self-isolation for 14 days as an effective precautionary measure to protect those around them and themselves from contracting COVID-19.
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