Egypt recorded, Sunday 272 new coronavirus cases and 14 deaths, which raises the total infected patients of COVID-19 to 6465 and the total deaths to 429 according to Health Minister’s daily briefing.
Health Ministry Spokesman Khaled Megahed added that 40 patients, were discharged from the hospital after being confirmed that they are completely recovered from the viruses, this also raises the number of recovered cases to 1562 out of 2041 who had been retested for the virus and had received negative results.
The Egyptian Health Ministry will start injecting plasma of patients who have recovered from the deadly coronavirus (COVID-19) into severely ill patients with the novel virus, Minister Hala Zayed previously said.
Plasma from recovered cases has the antibodies required to battle the virus inside other patients and curb its replication.
Zayed said that Egypt has the required experience in the convalescent plasma therapy and that the ministry is working hard through scientific research to find treatment for coronavirus patients.
In the same context, sources affiliated with the Egyptian Ministry of Health also revealed the scenario set by the ministry to face the spread of the novel coronavirus as the number of cases exceeded 6 thousand cases.
The ministry is planning to include and prepare other apparatuses such as social clubs, hotels, and Universities’ dormitories to become quarantine hospitals ready to receive new cases that have contracted the infectious virus.
The step replaced equipping the existed quarantine hospitals, 17 hospitals, and will include other chest and fever hospitals all over Egypt to receive, sort, and diagnose any new cases.
The sources said that the Ministry launched the new strategy on Thursday in response to the new rise in the number of cases contracted the virus, adding that the patients showing mild symptoms will be immediately transferred to the new quarantine hospitals- previously used as social clubs and dormitories- to receive a full medical treatment.
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