Egypt seems to have reached herd immunity against coronavirus but it’s not forever: minister

  • Date: 01-Aug-2022
  • Source: Egypt Independent
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:Egypt
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Egypt seems to have reached herd immunity against coronavirus but it’s not forever: minister

The Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research, Acting Minister of Health and Population, Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, said that Egypt reached herd immunity, but it is not absolute and eternal immunity.

He pointed out that the percentage of those who received the vaccination in the age group of 18 years and over reaches 90 percent, pointing out that 65 percent of the age group from 18 years and over were vaccinated; with a first dose or/ and a second dose.

He continued, “We were able to administer nearly 93 million vaccine shots, and we reached nearly 45 million first doses, 38 million second doses, and 7 million booster doses.”

Abdel-Ghaffar said, during a telephone interview with Al-Hadath Al-Youm satellite channel, on Sunday: “During the past weeks, we have witnessed an expected increase in the number of infections with the coronavirus, which are combined infections and not infections that affect hospitals or the occupancy rates in intensive care units.”

He added, “through our monitoring of the combined cases, we were able to deal with them and educate citizens about dealing with the virus.”

Mohamed Awad Tag-Eddin, Adviser to the President for Health Affairs, revealed the reason for the increase in coronavirs infections during the recent period, stressing