A 60-year-old German tourist died on Sunday in the city of Hurghada, in the Red Sea, making him the first mortal victim of the coronavirus in Egypt, and on the African continent.
The spokesman for the Egyptian Ministry of Health, Khaled Mujahid, reported in a statement that the man, who had been in the country for a week and who had previously been in the monumental city of Luxor (south), arrived with fever at the General Hospital of Hurged last day 6.
The next day, the patient tested positive for COVID-19 and was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) with respiratory failure caused by pneumonia, from which he was not re-repaid.
The victim had refused to be transferred to a specific isolation facility for people with coronavirus.
According to the latest data released today by the World Health Organization (WHO), 49 cases of the virus have been detected in Egypt, including the deceased today and one of the highest figures in the Middle East, only below Kuwait, Bahrain and Iraq.
At least 45 of them were travelling on a cruise ship in the south of the Nile, which made the journey from Aswan to Luxor and where 33 passengers and 12 crew members tested positive for COVID-19, Health Minister Hala Zayed confirmed today , in statements to Egyptian state television.
Detections take place in the middle of Egypt’s tourist season, which takes place between the months of November and April, when most visitors travel to the monumental southern cities, where the main temples and remains are located archaeological sites of the era of the pharaohs.
