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Egypt is yet to receive a reported case of the coronavirus’s new EG.5 variant, confirmed Ministry of Health and Population spokesperson Hossam Abdel Ghaffar in an interview with Ahram Online on 14 August. Abdel Ghaffar’s statement means that Egypt is not on the list of 51 countries already reporting cases of the new variant – a list that features China with 2247 infections, the United States with 1356, and South Korea with 1040. SHOULD WE FEAR THE NEW VARIANT? EG.5…
