Egypt's Old Affliction of Aloof Rulers

Khaled Fahmy

OAI: oai:www.repository.cam.ac.uk:1810/311369 • DOI: 10.17863/CAM.58459

Ever since Egypt recorded its first case of Covid-19 on February 14, official figures indicate that the country has seen a total of 102,000 confirmed cases of which 5,787 were fatalities. Given the overall size of the population, which is slightly over 100 million, this puts Egypt in the 31st place globally according to the Johns Hopkins University Covid-19 dashboard with an incidence rate of 99 per 100,000 (compared to 2,328 in Kuwait, 2,180 in Israel; 1,114 in South Africa; 847 in Saudi Arabia; 429 in Lebanon; and 275 in Morocco).