The official spokesperson for the Ministry of Health and Population in Egypt, Hossam Abdel-Ghaffar, announced Saturday that there has been a decrease in the number of coronavirus infections by up to 60 percent. “We had a reservation about the term sixth wave, so not every increase in the number of coronavirus infections means that we have entered a new wave,” he said. Doing so not just for the coronavirus would raise the rates of recovery from various types of diseases across the country inside hospitals, he noted. Egypt hits herd immunityThe Minister of Health and Population, Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, said earlier this month that Egypt reached herd immunity, but it is not absolute and eternal immunity. He continued, “We were able to administer nearly 93 million vaccine shots, and we reached nearly 45 million first doses, 38 million second doses, and 7 million booster doses.”

Source: Egypt Independent August 21, 2022 03:20 UTC