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Coronavirus Cases Worldwide Surpass 198 Mln


Mon 02 Aug 2021 | 02:52 PM
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 Reuters latest statistics showed on Monday that 198 million people were infected with Coronavirus worldwide.

Noteworthy, Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population said in a post on its official page on “Facebook”, that the Coronavirus vaccine is safe, effective, and stimulates the immune system to form antibodies to protect the body from the virus.

The Ministry of Health and Population called on citizens to register for receiving the vaccine on the website www.egcovac.mohp.gov.eg or to visit the nearest health unit office.

"Egypt will receive 148.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccine as of August till the year-end," Health Minister Hala Zayed said.

“The doses will be sufficient to inoculate 83.7 million citizens,” the minister said during the weekly cabinet meeting with Prime Minister Moustafa Madbouli at the cabinet headquarters in new Alamein city.

“New quantities of China’s Sinovac COVID-19 raw materials are set to arrive in the country in August to manufacture 70.2 million jabs,” she said.

“The new arrivals will also include 20 million doses of Sputnik vaccine, 20 million doses of Johnson &Johnson vaccine, 35.6 million of AstraZeneca, and 2.4 million of Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine,” she added.

She noted that infection and death rates are remarkably declining in the country.