The Health Ministry said Thursday 01/10/2020 that 119 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases in Egypt since the beginning of the outbreak to 103,317.

In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 16 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 5,946.

As many as 361 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 96,855 so far, the spokesman said.