Egypt will receive two million dozes of
Pfizer coronavirus vaccine in the coming few days, announced Egyptian Minister
of Health Hala Zayed remarked.
Shortly afterward, Egypt will receive other shipments of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccine, besides shipments of the effective substance that needs for producing Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines, she told El Hikaya talk show on the MBC Masr channel.
The health “situation is safe in Egypt… we have reached the lowest level,” the minister said, “We have not detected cases of the Delta coronavirus variant, but this does not mean that it will not come. The strain has entered more than 100 countries worldwide,” she continued.
Under directives of President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Egypt has signed a contract to buy 20 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine against coronavirus, said Advisor to the President of the Republic for health and prevention affairs Mohamed Awad Taj El-Din in a press conference in the Presidential Palace on June 3, 2021.
The state plans to vaccinate 40 million citizens by the end of the year, representing around 40 percent of the population.
Source: Egypt Today
