Egyptian Minister of Health Hala Zayed on Sunday announced that Egypt will receive the first shipment of raw materials to manufacture the Chinese Sinovac vaccine on May 18th. The authority also will closely follow the process of manufacturing the vaccine in Egypt by holding one or two meetings per week to accelerate the registration process. Egypt’s Health Ministry on Saturday confirmed 1,132 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total number of confirmed cases up to 236,272 ministry spokesperson Khaled Megahed announced. The total number of COVID-19-related deaths has now reached 13,845 nationwide, after the ministry announced 66 deaths. And 435 patients were discharged from quarantine at isolation hospitals, raising Egypt’s total number of fully-recovered cases to 176,363.

Source: Egypt Independent May 09, 2021 14:56 UTC