Egypt Reports 821 New Coronavirus Cases, 27 Deaths

On Friday, Egypt’s Health Ministry reported 821 new coronavirus cases, bringing the country’s total up to 391115.

The total number of COVID-19-related deaths has now reached 21909 nationwide after the ministry announced 27 deaths.

About 939 patients were discharged from quarantine at isolation hospitals, raising the total number of fully-recovered cases to 325364.

Egypt has managed so far to vaccinate around 50 million people against the Coronavirus.

The country’s vaccination campaign started in January using various types of imported and locally made vaccines and vaccinating millions of citizens.

Last week, Acting health minister Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar said that Egypt has so far received at total of 122.2 million doses of coronavirus vaccines.

In a presentation on the latest developments regarding the coronavirus pandemic during the weekly cabinet meeting in Cairo, Abdel-Ghaffar said that 57.4 million doses have been administered, leaving 64.8 million in stock, since the start of Egypt’s mass vaccination in January 2020.

Egypt is currently administrating Sinopharm, Sinovac, AstraZeneca, Sputnik, Moderna, Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson vaccines.

The minister also said that vaccination centres have been increased to 1,400, including 324 in hospitals, 180 centres for travellers, and 243 at youth centres.