Egypt’s Health Ministry on Friday confirmed 412 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total up to 279,596. The total number of COVID-19-related deaths has now reached 16,031 nationwide, after the ministry announced 29 deaths. And 765 patients were discharged from quarantine at isolation hospitals, raising Egypt’s total number of fully-recovered cases to 208,957. Egypt is currently using China’s Sinopharm vaccine and the UK’s AstraOxford vaccine, and has plans to soon begin locally manufacturing China’s Sinovac vaccine and Russia’s Sputnik-V. Egyptian health authorities announced Thursday morning that it has received the first batch of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine.
