Dr. Ashraf Hatem, Chairman of the Health Committee in the House of Representatives and a member of the Supreme Committee for Viruses and a former Minister of Health, said that the statement of the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, that only 10 countries received 75% of all Corona vaccines, and more than 130 countries did not receive a single dose, He explains that there is severe selfishness from developed countries, explaining that it is a global epidemic, and countries must have integrity in distributing the vaccine.
He explained during a telephone interview with the “Egypt Can” program, via satellite TV.DMCWith the media, Ahmed Fayek, because of the good relations between Egypt and China, as well as between Egypt and Russia, it allowed us outside the Kovacs and Dry Alliances, that Egypt was able to secure the presence of the Chinese vaccine, then the Russian vaccine soon and the British Swedish vaccine AstraZeneca, pointing out that the Egyptian government announced on The Ministry of Health and Unified Purchasing Authority said that during the year we have 100 million doses of vaccines.
He pointed out that 300 thousand doses of the Chinese vaccine have arrived, and there are more than 8 million doses of AstraZeneca vaccine that will arrive within days, explaining that the Russian vaccine has been approved by the Egyptian Drug Authority, and the Russian ambassador announced next month that it will be available in Egypt, and there are contracts through the Authority. Unified procurement with the Russian side, and there are negotiations to manufacture in Egypt. As for the Chinese vaccine, there are negotiations that have reached advanced stages to be manufactured in Vaxira, as for the AstraZeneca vaccine, its manufacture is difficult.
He mentioned that the session of the Health Committee and the Minister of Health in the House of Representatives discussed the availability of vaccines, and the minister talked about that vaccination began with medical teams, then people of over 70 years of age, then chronic diseases and then opens to the rest of the Egyptian people during the next two weeks, registration is made to be available, in addition there was a question to provide it For national companies.
He continued: “Citizens do not have the right to choose the vaccine and the vaccination is done according to the priority of registration and according to the available vaccinations, and the whole world has not had the possibility to choose between vaccines, and the available vaccines are vaccinated with it, and anyone over 65 years old gets the Chinese vaccine, while AstraZeneca is less than 65 years old. He pointed out that the Egyptian vaccine is one of the four announced by the World Health Organization in Egypt at the National Research Center, that he has started clinical and clinical research in the third phase of the vaccine, and we have 6 to 9 months to have a vaccine that is similar to the Sinopharm vaccine.
And he added, “Mostly every year we will have a vaccine for Corona, such as influenza, or vaccines for other viruses, because the viruses will not end.”
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