CAIRO, July 6 (Xinhua) -- Egypt recorded on Monday 969 COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 76,222, the health ministry said.
It is the first time that Egypt registers fewer than 1,000 daily new COVID-19 cases since May 28.
In a statement, Khaled Megahed, spokesman for the health ministry, said 79 more patients died from the disease, taking the death toll in the country to 3,422.
He added that 512 more have left quarantine hospitals in the past 24 hours after having fully recovered, raising the number of recoveries to 21,238.
A day earlier, Egypt witnessed a record 623 daily recoveries from COVID-19 while seeing 63 fatalities from the disease, the least since June 14.
The most populous Arab country announced its first confirmed COVID-19 case on Feb. 14 and the first death from the highly infectious virus on March 8.
The North African country resumed international flights on July 1 after more than three months of suspension, amid a coexistence plan to maintain anti-coronavirus precautionary measures while resuming economic activities.
Egypt has recently lifted a partial nighttime curfew it imposed over the past three months, reopening restaurants, cafes, theaters and cinemas, as well as hotels, museums and archeological sites for tourists, all with limited capacity.
Egypt and China have been cooperating closely in fighting the pandemic through exchanging medical aid and expertise.
In early February, Egypt provided aid to China to help with its fight against COVID-19 and China later returned favor by sending three batches of medical aid to the North African country, the latest of which was in mid-May.
Since mid-April, Chinese doctors and medical experts have held three video conferences with their Egyptian counterparts to share their experience in the prevention and treatment of the novel coronavirus. Enditem
