The Chinese ambassador to Cairo Liao Liqiang announced Monday that procedures to send two million doses of the Sinovac vaccine from China to Egypt will be finalized soon. Liao pointed out that Egypt was amongst the first countries to show full solidarity with the Chinese people since the pandemic began in China. Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population on Sunday reported 768 new coronavirus cases, 37 deaths, and 695 recoveries. Moreover, the Health Ministry has stated that official figures likely only represent 10 percent of actual cases. A total of 16,223,309 vaccine doses have been administrated in Egypt as of September 27, according to World Health Organization data.

Source: Egypt Independent October 05, 2021 11:37 UTC