Egypt reported on Sunday 167 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases, the lowest daily figure since April 22, raising the total cases registered in the country to 94,483, said the Health Ministry.
Meanwhile, 31 patients died from the novel coronavirus on the same day, bringing the death toll to 4,865, while 1,318 others were cured and discharged from hospitals, increasing the total recoveries to 42,455, the ministry’s spokesman Khaled Megahed said in a statement.
Egypt announced its first confirmed COVID-19 case on Feb. 14 and the first death from the highly infectious virus on March 8.
The country saw a record of 1,774 COVID-19 daily infections on June 19.
But since the first week of July, daily new coronavirus fatalities and infections in Egypt started to gradually decline amid a significant increase of daily new recoveries.
Egypt resumed international flights in early July, after it lifted a partial nighttime curfew it has been imposing since late March, and reopened restaurants, cafes, theaters and cinemas, as well as hotels, museums and archeological sites, all with limited capacity.
The easier restrictions are part of a “coexistence plan” adopted by the government over the past weeks to maintain anti-coronavirus precautionary measures while resuming economic activities.
Egypt and China have been working together on fighting the pandemic through exchanging medical aid and expertise.
In early February, Egypt provided aid to China to help with its fight against COVID-19 and China later sent three batches of medical aid to the North African country, the latest of which was in mid-May.
