Egypt gearing up for mass COVID-19 immunization
Egypt is gearing up to start a mass coronavirus vaccination campaign, after receiving two shipments of about 100,000 doses of a Chinese vaccine.
CAIRO — Egypt is preparing for the largest vaccination campaign in its history; the populous Arab country has already received two shipments of a COVID-19 vaccine developed in China.
The shipments, which came from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Dec. 10 and Dec. 15, contained 100,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine. Other shipments of the same vaccine will arrive one after another, the Ministry of Health said.
Doses within the first and second shipments will be distributed to front-line health-care workers, especially those at the nation's isolation hospitals, the ministry noted.
“These people are the first line of defense against the disease,” Magdi Morshid, member of the Committee on Health at the House of Deputies (lower chamber of parliament), told Al-Monitor. “This is why they must be a top priority for the vaccination campaign.”
