CAIRO - 26 December 2021: From now on, COVID-19 vaccination became mandatory for those who are aged above 18 years amid imposing harsher restrictions on non-vaccinated people, announced Egypt’s Ministry of Health on Saturday evening in a statement. The compulsory vaccination decision was among a set of rules taken by the supreme committee responsible for managing the coronavirus crisis on Saturday, the statement said. Meanwhile, the Health Ministry said 866 new coronavirus cases were detected on Tuesday in Egypt, upping the total number of infections to 380,520. Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said 25 patients died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 21,571. The number of doses was increased yesterday after the Cairo International Airport received Saturday more than 1.9 million Moderna and Pfizer coronavirus vaccine doses.
