Covid’s new strain likely to exist in Egypt: Ministry of Health official

  • Date: 21-Dec-2020
  • Source: Egypt Today
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:Egypt
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Covid’s new strain likely to exist in Egypt: Ministry of Health official

 

CAIRO – 21 December 2020: Covid's new strain, which has been announced to be found in Britain is likely to exist in Egypt according to Mohamed al Nady, member of the scientific committee to confront Coronavirus at the Ministry of Health.

He added in statements to ON privet channel, Sunday that the new stain which spreads faster than the original virus ‘might be found in Egypt if we conducted genetic studies'; but according to our observations and the recent rapid spreading for the virus ‘we believe that it exists already'.

He noted that ministry announced earlier that the virus has become more virulent in the spread, but not in the level of severity.

Egypt's head of the scientific committee to combat coronavirus affiliated with the Ministry of Health, Hussam Hosni, said Monday that they will start vaccinating doctors and medical workers starting next week.

He stressed that the Ministry will only provide safe and effective vaccines for citizens.

Hosni affirmed that the Chinese coronavirus vaccine produced by the Chinese company Sinopharm will be approved in Egypt on a scientific basis after the completion of the medical studies.

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