Statistics
for the Ministry of Health and Population revealed, Monday that the recovery
rates for people infected with coronavirus in quarantine hospitals have risen
to 44.9 percent for the first time since the beginning of the crisis.
On July 26, head of the Health Ministry’s coronavirus (COVID-19) committee Hossam Hosni said that Egypt has so far received voluntary plasma donors in 15 centers nationwide, He added that convalescent plasma of 420 donors has been accepted, with a success rate of 60 percent in critical and severe cases, the country now has a large strategic stock of convalescent plasma, Hosni said.
The experiment to inject convalescent plasma has contributed to reducing the need for ventilators and increasing the number of recoveries, Zayed said.
Source: Egypt Today
