Vaccine
Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said 56 patients died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 20,877.
Health Ministry spokesman Hossam Abdel Ghaffar said 51 patients died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 20,821.
He further noted that more than 250,000 children have been vaccinated with coronavirus vaccines so far.
Tageddin made it clear that most of the vaccines prevent severe complications from the disease.
“The variants of the Covid-19 will be a lot in the coming period,” presidential adviser for health affairs Awad Tag Eddin told Sada El Balad TV.
Egypt's Health Ministry said 938 new coronavirus cases were detected on Wednesday, upping the total number of infections since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country to 359,516.
The Cabinet Media Center denied reports on closure of schools and universities nationwide for fear of spread of Covid-19 variant Omicron.
The consignment arrived at Cairo International Airport on Saturday evening being the second of its kind in less than a week.
The UN official also lauded the eagerness of parents to vaccinate their children.
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research is holding Sunday a press conference to mark the launch of those clinical trials.
Egypt is studying this file and when it is done a date will be set for vaccinating the children.
Egypt's Health Ministry said 951 new coronavirus cases were detected on Wednesday, upping the total number of infections since the outbreak of COVID-19 in the country to 333,840.
The Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population revealed a relative increase in the number of daily infections with Corona, stressing that the whole world is witnessing the same increase.
They will be vaccinated with Pfizer doses.
About 72 million doses of the vaccine had been received, 38 million of which had been administered, the minister said, noting about 34 million doses are available.
Tag el-Din added that those included Chinese vaccines, AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson.
Egyptian Ambassador to Budapest Mohamed al-Shenawy attended the shipping process of the doses Tuesday.
Egypt's first Pfizer vaccines shipment arrived from the US in late September.
It called on the students who have not been vaccinated yet to swiftly get the vaccine at the vaccination points set up inside the universities.
Tag el-Din added that the fourth wave in Egypt has not ended yet, noting it is still not so bad, which has allowed schools to operate normally.
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