Egypt begins mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Egypt begins mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Egypt begins mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Egypt begins mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Egypt begins mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign

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Dr. Abdel Menoim Selim, is shown on a live screen receiving the Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine, ahead of a press conference, at the Abu Khalifa Hospital in Ismailia, 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Jan. 24, 2021. (AP)

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(L to R) Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed gives a press conference, accompanied by doctor Abdelmouim Selem and medical staff member Ahmed Hemdan, in a tent set up outside the Abou Khalifa hospital, in Ismailia, about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east the capital Cairo, on Sunday Jan. 24, 2021, after the two men received a doze of a coronavirus vaccine. (AFP)

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Egypt begins mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign

Sinopharm jab rolls out in 36 centers throughout country

Egypt launched its coronavirus vaccination campaign on Sunday

Updated 24 January 2021

CAIRO: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi announced the start of the campaign, and said that medical staff will be first in line to receive the jab.

Egypt received the first shipment of vaccines developed by Sinopharm last December.

Last week, the country's minister of health said that Egypt would receive 40 million doses through the International Vaccine Alliance, a sufficient