CAIRO – Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research and acting health and population minister, revealed Sunday the arrival of 3.890 mln doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine at Cairo airport.
A statement issued by the Ministry of Health and Population said the vaccine shipment arrived in Egypt through COVAX mechanism in cooperation with, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to provide vaccines for citizens.
The minister added that the state managed to provide in record time different kinds of vaccines including Sinovac-CoronaVac, AstraZeneca, Sinopharm, Sputnik, Johnson & Johnson , Pfizer and Moderna.
Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 Vaccine is authorized for emergency use and is available under the EUA as a two-dose primary series in individuals 5 years of age and older, as a third primary series dose for individuals 12 years of age and older who have been determined to have certain kinds of immunocompromise, and as a single booster dose in people 18 years of age and older.
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