Egypt to receive Johnson & Johnson vaccine doses

Egypt will obtain American vaccine doses on Saturday to assist increase its sluggish vaccination effort.

A cargo of 525,600 Johnson & Johnson doses will arrive by way of the African Export-Import Financial institution. It follows a earlier supply of 261,000 doses in August, the state-owned Al-Ahram information outlet reported.

Not like different two-shot COVID-19 vaccines, the Johnson & Johnson vaccination is delivered by way of a single shot.

The Cairo-based African Export-Import Financial institution procured 220 million Johnson & Johnson doses in March for African nations. The African Union was additionally concerned within the settlement, in line with a press launch.

Egypt’s vaccine rollout has been comparatively gradual to this point, regardless of pledges from the federal government. Solely round 6% of the Egyptian inhabitants has acquired a vaccine dose, in line with the Oxford-based Our World in Information.

Egypt is averaging 263 confirmed coronavirus instances a day. That is properly beneath June’s historic excessive of greater than 1,600 instances a day, in line with Reuters. Egypt’s inhabitants is greater than 100 million.

China’s Sinovac vaccine can also be being produced in Egypt, in line with Al-Ahram.