4:39 AM MYT CAIRO, Dec. 23 (Xinhua) Kuwait announced on Wednesday to launch the COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Thursday as 148,773 cases have been detected so far. Meanwhile, the total number of positive cases in Turkey exceeded 2.08 million. Kuwait s COVID-19 cases increased by 266 to 148,773 on Wednesday, while the death toll rose by one to 924. The Kuwaiti Minister of Health Bassel Al-Sabah said the same day that the country will launch the COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Thursday, with the elderly and frontline workers receiving the jab first. According to a statement by its health ministry, Kuwait received on Wednesday the first shipment of coronavirus vaccines.
DUBAI: Egyptians will be provided free Chinese Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine, local daily Egypt Today reported on Friday citing Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed.
The Sinopharm vaccine has 86 percent efficacy against COVID-19, according to Egyptian and UAE officials, after Cairo completed clinical trials.
Zayed, the Chinese Ambassador to Egypt Liao Liqiang and acting Emirati Ambassador to Egypt Mariam Al-Kaabi supervised the arrival of the first batch of the vaccine at Cairo International Airport, coming from the UAE.
Zayed further said that Egypt has signed an agreement with the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization “to secure the provision of further vaccine doses,” the report said.