Egypt is set to receive up to 26.6 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine, according to the Adviser to the President for Health Affairs Awad Tag Eddin on Tuesday. He also revealed the details of Egypt’s contract for the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, which recently joined the Sinopharm and AstraZeneca vaccines. “But with the intense negotiations, the date of supply was changed to be the beginning of next July, and further negotiations were made on the number of doses to become 26.6 million doses instead of 20 million. She said that Egypt is in the process of producing the first two million doses within the agreement with Sinovac, and is scheduled to produce 40 million doses of the Sinovac vaccine by the end of this year. Egypt has obtained 2.2 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine through the COVAX facility, in which Egypt has participated since December 2020, through which it is expected to obtain a total of 40 million doses of the vaccine, in addition to 3.5 million doses of Sinopharm in cooperation with China, she said.

Source: Egypt Independent June 29, 2021 12:45 UTC