Egypt extends campaigns to roll out COVID-19 shots to more institutions

Egypt extends campaigns to roll out COVID-19 shots to more institutions

The Ministry of Health continued its efforts to confront the coronavirus, emphasizing the need to receive the vaccine and adhere to precautionary and preventive measures.

It also continued to raise the maximum degree of preparedness in all quarantine departments at airports, seaports and land crossings.

The ministry extended the knock-on-door campaigns to vaccinate citizens to include transport, trains and stations, mosques, churches, sport clubs, youth centers and markets.

The spokesperson for the Health and Population Ministry, Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, said that the ministry continues to implement the quarantine plan at entry points to the country and preventive health measures for early detection of the virus, as well as conducting swabs for pilgrims coming through sea and air ports.

Abdul-Ghaffar stressed the continuation of raising the maximum level of readiness in all quarantine departments at air airports, seaports and land crossings.

Campaigns in place

The head of the preventive medicine sector at the ministry, Amr Kandil, said that the “knock-on-door” campaigns to vaccinate citizens with the vaccine extended to the coastal governorates that witness a turnout of vacationers, where 32,513 citizens were vaccinated.

He touched on updating the campaign implementation plan by providing presidential initiatives’ services in addition to vaccinations against coronavirus, and activating the benefit of citizens from