Date Posted: 12 July, 2025.

Egypt confirmed its first case of COVID-19 on Valentine’s Day, 2020. Since then, different measures were actively endorsed to contain the pandemic: schools and universities closed their doors, social distancing became the norm, a nationwide curfew was enforced, and many public hospitals were repurposed to isolation wards. As of July 2025, there are 24,830 recorded deaths in Egypt. Yet, many human rights organizations accuse the Egyptian government of underreporting the real numbers. Still, behind these figures lies a strained health system marked by serious disparities in the distribution of healthcare workers and poor quality of care—particularly in the public health sector.