Sisi provides needed support to manufacture Covid vaccines: President's adviser

CAIRO - 6 July 2020: President Abdel Fattah El Sisi has provided all required support and necessary equipment to localize the manufacture of coronavirus vaccines, president's adviser for health affairs Mohamed Awad Tag Eddin said.

Speaking to Sada Al Balad TV channel, the adviser reiterated on Monday that Egypt has overcome the third wave of coronavirus and the numbers of Covid-19 cases are going down.

He stressed that Delta variant is not spread in Egypt, noting that the production of coronavirus vaccine has come into effect in Egypt, where integrated steps have been taken to secure treatment for rare diseases.

The adviser pointed out that more than 4 million Egyptians received Covid-19 vaccines without suffering side effects so far.

He asserted that precautionary measures should remain in place through sticking to social distancing and wearing face masks to contain the pandemic.

The Health Ministry said Monday night that 175 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 282,257.

In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 20 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 16,384.

As many as 765 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 214,852 so far, the spokesman said.