Egypt establishes largest coronavirus vaccine factory in Middle East
Egypt is preparing to inaugurate the VACSERA factory complex in the 6th of October City, aiming to produce various types of vaccines in cooperation with major international companies.
Egypt is getting ready to open a large factory to produce coronavirus vaccines, at a time when the country is seeing a modest uptick in cases and inoculation rates remain low.
In cooperation with major international companies in the field of vaccines, Egypt is set to inaugurate the VACSERA factory complex in the 6th of October City, a suburb of Cairo, to produce various types of vaccines, including the seasonal influenza vaccine, pneumococcal vaccine and polio vaccine.
Egypt recorded 368 new cases of the coronavirus on Sept. 6, with the daily average over the preceding seven days standing at 319 cases. While this marks a slight increase from infections in July, it still remains well below the pandemic’s peak in the country in the summer of 2020, when cases were averaging over 1,500 per day.
Meanwhile, Egypt has seen a slow rollout of vaccinations. About 10.4 million doses have been administered so far, enough to inoculate just over 5% of the country’s 100 million plus population.
