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Egypt receives 50,000 AstraZeneca vaccine doses from India

 

Egypt received 1st batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine jabs from India in the fight against COVID-19

Egypt on Sunday received a first batch of 50,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines from India. The vaccine shipment arrived in Cairo on January 31 on an Emirates Airlines flight from India via Dubai after release procedures were finalized by relevant authorities.

The Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA) had previously approved the emergency use of two COVID-19 vaccines - one developed by Oxford-AstraZeneca and the other by Chinese state-owned company Sinopharm. According to Presidential adviser for health affairs Mohammed Awad Tag El-Din, Egypt will be receiving COVID-19 vaccines from different sources.

“We are monitoring the progress in scientific research on vaccines produced worldwide, and Egypt will make sure that it diversifies its sources of vaccines,” Tag El-Din had said during a press conference in December 2020.

In addition to Oxford-AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccines, Egypt received 50,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine developed by China and the UAE in December 2020.

Egypt launched its nationwide COVID-19 immunization programme last week by vaccinating medical staff of a hospital in the northeastern province of Ismailia using the Chinese Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine. Health Minister Hala Zayed affirmed that the vaccination will be provided to all health workers for free as part of the mass drive.

Arab world’s most populous country, Egypt is going to install more than 35 medical centers in the coming weeks to administer the COVID-19 vaccine to its population of over 100 million people. The Health Ministry has called on the citizens to register online to receive the vaccination. As of now, over 3,000 people have registered online to receive the vaccine jab.

Hala Zayed has noted that the vaccination programme will initially inoculate the medical staff of public hospitals in Egypt, the armed forces and the police. As per the vaccination programme, priority will be given to medical personnel treating COVID-19 patients, followed by healthcare workers dealing with other patients, the elderly population, those with chronic diseases, and the rest of the citizens.

A total of 100 million vaccine doses will be arriving in Egypt from Chinese, Russian and British drug manufacturers. Cairo will also receive about 40 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the COVAX Facility aimed at vaccinating 20 percent of its population.

“Within two or three weeks maximum there will be the beginning of the influx of GAVI vaccines. It will give us the urgent needs during the first quarter,” Hala Zayed said in a recent briefing.

Reportedly, more than 1,300 medical workers in Coronavirus isolation hospitals have been vaccinated against the disease so far.

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