A handout photo shows an employee demonstrating vials with "Gam-COVID-Vac" vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), developed (RDIF)CAIRO - 2 January 2020: According to a statement released by the Health Ministry said Friday that 1,409 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases to 139,471. Cabinet’s spokesman Nader Saad said on January 1. that Egypt is negotiating with the American Pfizer and the British-Swedish AstraZeneca to obtain batches of coronavirus vaccine. He added that Egypt will obtain vaccine doses from the two companies, in addition to those of China’s Sinopharm, by the end of the negotiations. Thus, it becomes the first coronavirus vaccine to receive such approval from WHO. Egypt in December received its first batch of doses of a vaccine developed by Sinopharm, containing 50,000 doses.

Source: Egypt Today January 02, 2021 10:41 UTC