Egypt will receive a shipment of 1.9 million doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine to Egypt in July, Health Minister Hala Zayed said in a statement on June 27th.
This shipment was originally scheduled to arrive in Egypt by the first week of June, but it has been delayed as Covax suffers a supply shortage.
The shipment will be Egypt’s last Gavi / Covax shipment. The initiative has allocated 4.5 million shots to Egypt and has so far delivered 2.6 million.
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Last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that at least 40 out of the 80 countries first allocated vaccines through the Gavi / Covax program are now facing the prospect of vaccine shortages.
Egypt and six other countries have used 80% of the shots sent by Covax.
In the next two weeks, Egypt is set to receive more raw material to produce Sinovac’s vaccine, as China will ship material sufficient to produce 7.5 million doses of the jab.
