Egypt will soon set up vaccination centres at courts, metro and train stations and traffic directorates as part of the health ministry’s plan to widen the vaccination campaign against COVID-19, Health Minister Hala Zayed said on Saturday.
In a cabinet meeting for governors, Minister Zayed stated that the government will soon establish vaccination centres at high turnout public venues to vaccinate citizens more quickly, including mosques and churches on Friday and Sundays.
Providers have administered more than 23.3 million COVID-19 doses nationwide, Zayed said last week.
The health minister also stated that Egypt has a stock of 60.5 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, and that the number would grow to 70 million by the end of the month.
Earlier Saturday, the US Embassy in Cairo announced that over one million doses of the Pfizer BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine were on their way to Cairo from the United States.
During the meeting, Hala Zayed also revealed that starting next week the manufacturing technology to produce the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine locally will be transferred to VACSERA, adding that Egypt will start exporting Sinovac/VACSERA next week.
Egypt is planning to manufacture 40 million doses of the Chinese vaccine by the end of the year at VACSERA factories.
Prime Minister Mustafa Madbouly headed the governors meeting, which was attended by Health Minister Hala Zayed, Education Minister Tarek Shawky, Local Development Minister Mahmoud Shaarawy and Minister of Housing Essam El-Gazar.
Source: Al-Ahram Online
