Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) was first described in December 2019
in Wuhan, the capital of China’s Hubei province. 1,2.
On March 11, 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 as a
pandemic3. The first confirmed case
of COVID-19 in Egypt was
reported on February 14, 2020. As of May 10, 2020, there have been 8,964
confirmed cases, 2,002 recovered and 514 deaths4.