Egypt reports 712 new coronavirus cases, 46 fatalities on Thursday

CAIRO – 2 April 2021: The Health Ministry said 712 new coronavirus cases were detected on Thursday, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 202,843.

In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 46 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 12,041.

As many as 322 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 155,016 so far, the spokesman said.

Egypt received on Thursday early morning 845,400 AstraZeneca vaccine doses through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX), the Health Ministry announced.

This comes as part of 40 million doses set to reach Egypt in succession through COVAX, co-led by the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI) and the World Health Organization (WHO).

Egypt has started its vaccination campaign in January, starting with the medical teams at quarantine hospitals, for being on top of priority groups in terms of vaccination.

Late in January, Egypt received its first batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine, consisting of 50,000 doses, from India. The country has so far also obtained 650,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine,

The registration to get the vaccine is done either online (http://mohpegypt.com) or at certain health facilities. Afterwards, citizens get informed about the time and place where they will receive the vaccine.

The eligible citizens have to take two shots of the Sinopharm vaccine (21 days apart) and four weeks apart for the AstraZeneca vaccine.

In March, Health Minister Hala Zayed announced raising the number of coronavirus vaccination centers nationwide from 40 to 138.