Egypt to receive 148.2 million doses of Covid 19 vaccine, Health Minister

Egypt to receive 148.2 million doses of Covid 19 vaccine, Health Minister

CAIRO – 29 July 2021: Egypt will receive 148.2 million doses of Covid 19 vaccine as of August till the year end, Health and Population Minister Hala el Zayed said on Thursday. The doses will be sufficient to inoculate 83.7 million citizens, the minister said during the weekly cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli at the cabinet headquarters in new Alamein city. New quantities of China's Sinovac COVID-19 raw materials are to arrive in the country in August to manufacture 70.2 million jabs, she said. The new arrivals will also include 20 million doses of Sputnik vaccine, 20 million doses of Johnson &Johnson vaccine, 35.6 million of AstraZeneca and 2.4 million of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, she added. She noted that infection and death rates are remarkably declining in the country. She reviewed updates on the emergence of Delta variant of coronavirus, which was first detected in India, in many countries and the effect of available vaccines on it. She noted that latest studies pointed out that hospital admission rates increased with the spread of Delta strain in many world countries. The studies also underlined the importance of wearing face masks whether citizens were vaccinated or not in areas where the