CAIRO – 5 November 2021: Egypt received its second shipment of the American-made Moderna vaccine, comprising more than 3.5 million doses on Friday. The doses, delivered less than a week from the first Moderna shipment, arrived at the Cairo International Airport through the COVAX initiative and in cooperation with the Vaccine Alliance (Gavi). The Moderna vaccine, approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization, is administered as two doses, 21 days apart. Egypt received late in October its first shipment of the Moderna vaccine comprising 784,280 doses. The country has received all types of vaccines worldwide, the latest of which was Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson.
