The health system measures put into place in Egypt to contain the spread of COVID-19 are:
* The authorities have taken a host of precautionary measures to improve testing as well as to limit the community spread of the virus, including setting up testing centres, temporarily closing places of worship, temporarily halting all air travel, and encouraging civil servants to work from home in non-essential sectors. The central bank and the government are actively implementing measures to contain economic implications of the epidemic.
* March 24: The government recently has announced 1 billion EGP (USD 63.5 million) in extra funding for its health services and applied various measures to increase the country’s capacity to absorb the sudden increase of critical patients that the outbreak might bring.
* March 25: WHO delegation concludes COVID-19 technical mission to Egypt, as a result of which alternative mechanisms for testing patients were identified through the establishment of 27 laboratories across the country and additional 4 university laboratories.
The published information can be found here
