China’s Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqiang speaking in an interview with dmc news channel - Screenshot/dmcCAIRO – 5 February 2021: China will soon grant Egypt 300,000 coronavirus vaccine doses, sufficient for 150,000 persons, Chinese Ambassador to Cairo Liao Liqiang said on Thursday evening. Egypt has already received three batches of the vaccine developed by China’s Sinopharm since December, the latest of which was yesterday. Egypt has started its vaccination campaign in January, starting with the medical teams at quarantine hospitals, for being on top of priority groups in terms of vaccination. Late in January, Egypt received 50,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the second batch to be delivered to the country after the China’s Sinopharm batch in December. Speaking before the House of Representatives on Thursday, Zayed said that Egypt received on that day the third batch of the Chinese vaccine.

Source: Egypt Today February 05, 2021 09:33 UTC