The Health Ministry said that 637 new coronavirus cases were detected in Egypt over the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of infections to 296,276.
In a statement on Saturday, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said that 16 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,951.
As many as 711 patients were discharged from hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recoveries to 249,793, he added.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population received a shipment of 20 refrigerators to store Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccines, which will be received in the coming period, said the World Health Organization (WHO) Egypt in a statement on Friday.
The shipment was delivered by UNICEF through the COVAX facility, the statement added, noting that the delivered refrigerators are the first shipment out of a total of 63 refrigerators that the ministry will receive in the coming period.
The Ministry will receive the first shipment of 260,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine in the coming new period.
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