CAIRO, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Egypt registered on Tuesday 465 daily new COVID-19 cases, raising the total number of infections to 92,947, said the health ministry.
From the first week of July, COVID-19 daily fatalities and infections in Egypt started to decline amid remarkable increase of daily recoveries.
Tuesday also marked the 20th consecutive day of Egypt's COVID-19 daily infections to fall below 1,000.
Death toll from the disease rose to 4,691 after 39 fatalities were added, health ministry spokesman Khaled Megahed said in a statement.
The spokesman said that 1,121 patients left hospitals in the past 24 hours after fully cured, bringing the total number of recoveries in the country to 35,959.
Egypt announced its first confirmed COVID-19 case on Feb. 14 and the first death from the highly infectious virus on March 8.
The country has recently resumed international flights, lifted a partial nighttime curfew it has been imposing since late March, and reopened restaurants, cafes, theaters and cinemas, as well as hotels, museums and archeological sites, all with limited capacity.
Easing restrictions is part of a coexistence plan adopted by the government over the past weeks to maintain anti-coronavirus precautionary measures while resuming economic activities.
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 sent three batches of medical aid to the North African country, the latest of which was in mid-May. Enditem
