Over fears of Coronavirus spread, crowd of people gathered in a village near the Nile Delta to prevent the burial of a doctor who died of Coronavirus.
Egyptian police fired tear gas on Saturday to disperse the crowd, according to local newspapers and footage on social media.
The interior ministry said 23 people were arrested, and the public prosecutor said his office will investigate the incident.
Footage posted online showed dozens of people gathered in front of an ambulance to stop it from entering the village’s burial grounds over fears that the body could spread the virus. They scattered as police fired canisters of tear gas.
The bodies of those killed by COVID-19 are washed carefully and placed in a sealed body bag so as not to spread infection, a health ministry spokesman, Khaled Megahed, told the Saudi-owned Egyptian broadcaster MBC Masr.
Egypt on Saturday registered 145 new cases of the coronavirus, bringing the total to 1939 cases including 146 deaths.
