Egypt’s Ministry of Health announced Monday, receiving 2
million doses of the ‘Sinovac’ Coronavirus vaccine at Cairo International
Airport provided by the Chinese government in the framework of joint
cooperation between Egypt and China to confront the pandemic.
The Ministry said that the new shipment will be delivered to the laboratories of the Medicines Authority for analysis, and then it will be released to be distributed to vaccination centers. It affirmed that the vaccine is safe and effective.
Consultant to the President for Health and Preventive Affairs Awad Tag al-Din stated Sunday in a phone-in that Egypt has spent $400 million on anti-COVID-19 vaccines.
Tag el-Din added that those included Chinese vaccines, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson. That is in addition to the doses acquired through Covax, and as donations from other countries.
The official noted that there is a target to make 40 million adults fully vaccinated. The figure now stands at 25 million. As for the total of doses injected into citizens, the number is 35 million.
On Oct. 25, the Ministry announced receiving the third shipment of Johnson & Johnson vaccine including 1,058,400 million doses. This comes within the framework of the mechanism of the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT) in cooperation with the African Export–Import Bank as part of the state's plan on diversity and expansion in providing anti-coronavirus vaccine.
Megahed asserted the importance of continuous cooperation with the international organizations to stand against the coronavirus pandemic and provide the vaccine for the citizens.
Source: Egypt Today
