The Health Ministry said on Monday night 28/2/2022that 1,523 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed infections since the outbreak in the country began to 483,771.

In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said 34 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 24,074.

As many as 1,321 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 413,482 so far, the spokesman said.

Source: State Information Service Egypt