CAIRO: A second senior military officer in Egypt has died of the new coronavirus, state television reported Monday, as the officially declared death toll stood at 14 from 327 cases recorded nationwide. Major General Shafee Dawood, head of major infrastructure projects at the military engineering authority, became the latest high-ranking figure in Egypt to die from COVID-19 in hospital. His death comes after Major General Khaled Shaltout, the army´s chief of water management, died from the virus late Sunday. State television said that Shaltout contracted the disease after having taken part in “sterilisation” procedures to stave off the virus.
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