COVID-19 pandemic in Egypt

The COVID-19 pandemic was confirmed to have reached Egypt by 14 February 2020. As of 1 May 2020, there have been 5,895 confirmed cases, 1,460 recoveries and 406 deaths.Egypt reports highest single-day coronavirus death toll at 20, plus 248 new infections on Monday at Al-Ahram (retrieved 28 April 2020)

Response
All flights from China to Egypt were banned starting on 26 January. Egypt's health ministry announced the first case in the country at Cairo International Airport involving a Chinese national on 14 February. 

Egyptian authorities had talked to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the patient had been placed in quarantined isolation in hospital. 

Cases
On 8 March, a 60-year-old German citizen died in Hurghada, the first German fatality from the virus. The next day, the World Health Organization said that there were 56 confirmed cases in Egypt. On the same day, the Egyptian Minister of Tourism said that they discovered 3 additional cases with three people who work in a hotel.

In early April, cases surpassed 1000.

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