Egypt receives 347,460 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine

CAIRO - Egypt received on Thursday morning a shipment of 347,460 doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine, said the Egyptian Acting Minister of Health Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar in a statement on Thursday.

 

The shipment, which arrived at the Cairo International Airport, was delivered via the COVAX Facility and would be tested before being distributed to 1,100 vaccination centers nationwide, the Acting Minister said.

 

In comments to Youm7 newspaper, the Ministry’s Spokesperson Houssam Abdel-Ghaffar said that Egypt would receive 6 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine on January 5.

 

By the end of 2021, Egypt has administered a total of 55,662,624 million doses of the coronavirus vaccines, according to Acting Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar on Wednesday.

 

The minister said the country has administered 34,606,074 first vaccine shots and 21,056,550 second vaccine shots.

 

He added that the country has imported a total of 119,288,130 vaccine doses with 64,335,246 still available for use.

 

Cairo International Airport received on Saturday more than 1.9 million Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses.

 

According to informed sources, the shipment included 462,000 Moderna doses and 1,501,000 Pfizer doses. The shipment was handed to the Ministry of Health, according to the sources.

 

The country is currently struggling with the fourth wave of the pandemic, reporting so far a total of 383,857 cases and 21,695 deaths, according to the latest official count on Friday, since the pandemic started in Egypt in February last year.