The Health Ministry said late Tuesday that 1,003 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 224,517.
In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 61 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 13,168.
As many as 765 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 168,665 so far, the spokesman said.
Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population denied the audio recording circulated on a social media website alleging that hospitals are running out of beds for patients, the epidemiological situation is deteriorating in governorates, and that all university hostels have been inaugurated to receive patients.
“The audio recording is completely untrue, and is not related to the Ministry of Health and Population, nor to any of its sectors” Spokesman Khaled Megahed said.
He noted that about 45 percent of the hospitals’ bed capacity nationwide is available to receive coronavirus patients.
Megahed urged social media users to avoid publishing any information that may confuse the public opinion without asking the ministry’s official sources.
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