Egypt Receives Nearly 4 Mln AstraZeneca Vaccines from UK

On Saturday, Egypt received 3 million and 999 thousand Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines from the United Kingdom as part of its keenness to support Cairo’s efforts in facing the pandemic.

According to an official statement by the health ministry, acting Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said the vaccines have been received at Cairo International Airport in three batches on Thursday and Friday.

The vaccines have been delivered under the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX), an international initiative that seeks to ensure equitable distribution of coronavirus vaccines in cooperation with the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), with the support of UNICEF and the World Health Organization (WHO)|.

The British Embassy in Cairo said on Saturday that the package donated by the UK is one of its largest bilateral donations of vaccines through COVAX.

Egypt has so far received over 134 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines, including raw material needed to manufacture vaccines at its state-owned vaccine maker Vacsera.

It has administered total of 37,146,343 first vaccine doses and 25,675,923 second vaccine doses.