- ReutersCAIRO – 2 April 2021: The Health Ministry said 712 new coronavirus cases were detected on Thursday, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 202,843. In a statement, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said 46 patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 12,041. Egypt received on Thursday early morning 845,400 AstraZeneca vaccine doses through the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX), the Health Ministry announced. Late in January, Egypt received its first batch of the AstraZeneca vaccine, consisting of 50,000 doses, from India. The eligible citizens have to take two shots of the Sinopharm vaccine (21 days apart) and four weeks apart for the AstraZeneca vaccine.

Source: Egypt Today April 02, 2021 07:07 UTC