Egypt to acquire tens of thousands of anti-COVID-19 drugs by end of January 2022

CAIRO – 6 January 2022: A source at the Ministry of Health and Population told Al Watan newspaper Thursday that consignments – whose size ranges between 20,000 and 50,000 doses - of anti-COVID-19 drugs will arrive in Egypt by the end of January.

The source elaborated that those include "Baclofen" (20,000 doses); and "Evusheld" (50,000); and the Egypt-produced "Molnupiravir."

The recovery rate from the coronavirus (COVID-19) at Egyptian isolation hospitals has reached 83.3 percent, after the number of people recovering from the virus increased to 321,568 cases, according to the Ministry of Health's statement.