CAIRO – 24 September 2022: China has gifted Egypt 60 million coronavirus vaccine doses, of which 10 million has so far arrived, Egyptian Minister of Health Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said on Saturday. Abdel Ghaffar also celebrated more than a year and a half of partnership between VACSERA and China’s biopharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech Ltd, which helped Egypt produce over 30 million Sinovac coronavirus vaccine doses. The manufacturing of the Sinovac coronavirus doses in Egypt is part of an agreement that VACSERA signed with the Chinese biopharmaceutical company, aiming initially to produce 40 million doses of the locally-made vaccine by the end of 2021. Last week, Presidential Advisor for Health Affairs Mohamed Awad Tag El Din said COVID-19 deaths in the country fell to almost zero. He rather explained during televised statements that the latest sixth wave of coronavirus in Egypt was “very weak”.

Source: Egypt Today September 24, 2022 11:35 UTC