Egypt’s Covid-19 vaccination lags behind most Mena countries – The National

Egypt’s Covid-19 vaccination lags behind most Mena countries – The National

Egypt has administered a little more than half of its available Covid-19 vaccine supply as cases continue to climb amid a fourth wave.

The Ministry of Health and Population has used 38 million of the 72 million doses available, said Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, acting health minister and higher education minister.

The country of more than 104 million people has fully vaccinated about 8 per cent of its population and partly vaccinated another 8 per cent, Our World in Data reported, meaning Egypt is lagging behind most countries in the Middle East and North Africa.