Madbouly made the announced while presiding over a medical group meeting to confront the coronavirus. Egypt’s Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed 855 new coronavirus cases, up from 852 on Monday. The country has now reported a total of 218,014 confirmed cases, 12,820 deaths, and 164,368 recovered cases. Egypt is currently using China’s Sinopharm vaccine and the UK’s AstraOxford vaccine. So far, 100 million doses have been secured by the ministry through the COVAX initiative, which is enough to vaccinate roughly half of Egypt’s population.

Source: Egypt Independent April 21, 2021 11:48 UTC