The agreement boosts vaccination efforts in Egypt
Egypt to acquire 20 million doses of Sinopharm vaccine
Health ministry expects to receive batch of 500,000 COVID-19 vaccine shots produced by China's Sinopharm this month.
Tuesday 20/04/2021
The agreement boosts vaccination efforts in Egypt
CAIRO - Egypt has agreed to purchase 20 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine produced by China's Sinopharm and expects to receive a batch of 500,000 shots this month, its health ministry said on Tuesday.
The agreement boosts vaccination efforts in Egypt, which has a population of 100 million and has so far received a total of just over 1.5 million doses of Sinopharm and of the AstraZeneca shot.
Earlier this month, Egypt announced it was preparing to produce up to 80 million doses of the vaccine produced by China's Sinovac.