Rich countries have so far donated 150 million doses through the COVAX program to provide vaccines to poor countries. Egypt is currently using China’s Sinopharm vaccine and the UK’s AstraOxford vaccine. The Ministry of Health announced that it will soon begin producing Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinovac vaccines at Vacsera. The total number of COVID-19-related deaths has now reached 15,309 nationwide, after the ministry announced 41 deaths. And 799 patients were discharged from quarantine at isolation hospitals, raising Egypt’s total number of fully-recovered cases to 195,871.
