Speaking to the Al Ahram newspaper, Ministry Spokesman Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar urged to avoid panic after noting that the Covid-19 infection rate in Egypt reached its lowest point since the outbreak of the pandemic in 2020.

The new variant was classified as low-risk by the World Health Organization (WHO), although it spreads faster.

Abdel-Ghaffar said that the Ministry is monitoring the epidemiological situation of all respiratory viruses in the country closely and has taken precautionary measures against Covid-19.

We use a robust surveillance system that continuously examines the genetic sequence of virus samples in public health laboratories to detect and track new variants, he stressed.

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