Egypt\u2019s Minster of State for Information Osama Heikal on Sunday said he and his family have recovered from the novel coronavirus, about two weeks after he announced self-isolation after he came in contact with a COVID-19 patient.<\/p>\n
\u201cToday is my first workday after two weeks in house quarantine,\u201d Heikal said.<\/p>\n
Heikal had been active during the past few months before he contracted the virus, to announce the state\u2019s measures amid the coronavirus crisis.<\/p>\n
Late in June, Minister of Housing Assem El Gazzar also spent two weeks of self-isolation as he accidentally came in contact with a coronavirus positive case.<\/p>\n
Gazzar told state\u2019s Akhbar Al-Youm that he has not tested positive for the novel coronavirus but he self-isolated after he found that an attendee of one of his meetings few days earlier has contracted coronavirus.<\/p>\n
Egypt recorded, Saturday, 1,342 new coronavirus cases, upping the total number of confirmed cases to 74,035.<\/p>\n
In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 79 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 3,280.<\/p>\n
As many as 413 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 20,103 so far, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n
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