Health Ministry official Mohamed al-Nady warned on Sunday that Egypt is in the peak of its third wave of coronavirus, as case numbers remain high and hospitals are filling.

Egypt’s Doctors’ Syndicate has announced that at least 500 doctors have died from Covid-19 in the country since the beginning of the pandemic over a year ago.

Sixty-one doctors have died from coronavirus since the start of April, the Egyptian Medical Syndicate announced this week.

Egyptian firm Minapharm will become the first company in the Middle East and North Africa to produce Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine as the country faces a new spike in cases during Ramadan.

Legislators and their families are getting vaccinated and are being allowed to choose between the AstraZeneca and Sinopharm vaccines despite the Health Ministry’s repeated statements that people will have no say in which shots they receive.

President Sisi’s regime has decided to sell the bulk of government procured COVID-19 vaccines, rather than provide them for free. The two-dose Astra Zeneca inoculation will be sold for 100-200 Egyptian pounds (EGP), though the government’s per dose cost is only 47 EGP. Out of a total population of 103 …

Egypt’s Health Ministry on Monday confirmed 613 new coronavirus cases, up from 611 on Sunday. The ministry also reported 56 deaths and 389 recovered cases.

Millions of underprivileged Egyptians will struggle to afford Covid-19 vaccines after the government announced it would charge people to receive them, threatening the country with a third wave of the pandemic, health experts and economists have warned.

The Health Ministry kickstarted a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 on Sunday, with the first shots of a Chinese state-owned Sinopharm vaccine being given to healthcare workers at Ismailia’s Abou Khalifa isolation hospital.

All coronavirus patients in an intensive care unit in Egypt have died after the oxygen supply to the ward failed.