The Ministry of Health and Population on Sunday has began registering elderly citizens and patients with underlying chronic health conditions and who wish to obtain the coronavirus vaccine through a website it established for this purpose. In a Saturday statement the ministry explained that the site automatically identifies citizens with priority to obtain the vaccine. With successive batches of the coronavirus vaccine, the targeted groups of citizens will be expanded. The minister added that 100 million doses of coronavirus vaccines were contracted through the ministry’s agreement with the the GAVI Vaccine Alliance and its contracts with several other companies. Zayed pointed out that Egypt is about to receive 8.6 million doses of vaccines soon, out of the 40 million doses that Gavi will supply to Egypt over the course of the current year.

Source: Egypt Independent February 28, 2021 11:37 UTC