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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.
Laboratory workers supervise the production of vials of China's Sinovac vaccine against the coronavirus, produced by the Egyptian company VACSERA, Cairo, Egypt, Sept. 1, 2021.

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. 

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