Gavi to provide Egypt with 20% of its coronavirus vaccines

Gavi to provide Egypt with 20% of its coronavirus vaccines

Gavi to provide Egypt with 20% of its coronavirus vaccines

Gavi to provide Egypt with 20% of its coronavirus vaccines

Gavi to provide Egypt with 20% of its coronavirus vaccines

Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed announces details of Egypt's vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in Cairo. (Reuters/File)

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Gavi to provide Egypt with 20% of its coronavirus vaccines

Zayed referred to three vaccines: AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Pfizer-BioNTech

Updated 13 January 2021

CAIRO: Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Hala Zayed has announced that Egypt is negotiating with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi) to provide 20 percent of its coronavirus vaccines.

Zayed referred to three vaccines: AstraZeneca, Sinopharm and Pfizer-BioNTech.

"We are currently in talks with the Chinese ambassador regarding the Chinese vaccine “¦ within a few days, the supply will start,“ Zayed said.

"We are also contacting Pfizer to obtain its vaccine and the file has been submitted for registration in Egypt,“ she added.

The minister said that Egypt expects to start receiving coronavirus vaccines from Gavi in the coming weeks.

The minister added that Gavi will deliver 20 percent of Egypt's needs and that urgent deliveries will arrive in the first quarter of the year.

She said that the vaccines may arrive in late January or early February, which are likely