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Egypt to Receive 120 Million Doses of COVID Vaccines

A worker performs a quality check in the packaging facility of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech. Reuters
A worker performs a quality check in the packaging facility of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech. Reuters
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Egypt to Receive 120 Million Doses of COVID Vaccines

A worker performs a quality check in the packaging facility of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech. Reuters
A worker performs a quality check in the packaging facility of Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech. Reuters

Egypt announced Saturday that it signed contracts to get 120 million doses of COVID-19 jabs, while the Health Ministry confirmed it will start inoculating with the locally produced Sinovac vaccine next month.

Meanwhile, the daily COVID-19 infection rate in the country has continued to decline. Egypt recorded 198 new coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak in the country began to 281,772, the Health Ministry said.

According to the Ministry’s spokesman Khaled Megahed, 21 patients died from the virus, raising the death toll to 16,215. In addition, 666 patients were discharged from isolation hospitals after receiving necessary medical care, taking the number of recovered cases to 212,725.

Health Minister Hala Zayed said late on Friday that Egypt’s VACSERA has produced around 650,000 doses of China's Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine.

The vaccine will be ready to be administered in August.

According to the Health Minister, Egypt aims to vaccinate 40% of its population of just over 100 million by the end of 2021.

The Minister said that Egypt has not recorded Delta variant cases, but warned that the highly infectious variant could start circulating after it spread to many countries.

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G7 Leaders Endorse Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire and Insist Israel Follow International Law

From left, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Britain's Foreign Office Political Director Christian Turner, and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pose for a family photo at the G7 of foreign Ministers in Fiuggi, some 70 kilometers south-east of Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP)
From left, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Britain's Foreign Office Political Director Christian Turner, and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pose for a family photo at the G7 of foreign Ministers in Fiuggi, some 70 kilometers south-east of Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP)
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G7 Leaders Endorse Israel-Hezbollah Ceasefire and Insist Israel Follow International Law

From left, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Britain's Foreign Office Political Director Christian Turner, and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pose for a family photo at the G7 of foreign Ministers in Fiuggi, some 70 kilometers south-east of Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP)
From left, Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot, Canada's Foreign Minister Melanie Joly, Italian Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, Britain's Foreign Office Political Director Christian Turner, and European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell pose for a family photo at the G7 of foreign Ministers in Fiuggi, some 70 kilometers south-east of Rome, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2024. (AP)

Foreign ministers from the world’s industrialized countries said Tuesday they strongly supported an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and insisted that Israel comply with international law in its ongoing military operations in the region.

At the end of their two-day summit, the ministers didn’t refer directly to the International Criminal Court and its recent arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister over crimes against humanity.

Italy had put the ICC warrants on the official meeting agenda, even though the G7 was split on the issue. The US, Israel’s closest ally, isn’t a signatory to the court and has called the warrants “outrageous.”

However, the EU’s chief diplomat Josep Borrell said all the other G7 countries were signatories and therefore obliged to respect the warrants.

In the end, the final statement adopted by the ministers said Israel, in exercising its right to defend itself, “must fully comply with its obligations under international law in all circumstances, including international humanitarian law.”

And it said all G7 members — Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States – “reiterate our commitment to international humanitarian law and will comply with our respective obligations.” It stressed that “there can be no equivalence between the terrorist group Hamas and the State of Israel.”

The ICC warrants say there's reason to believe Netanyahu used “starvation as a method of warfare” by restricting humanitarian aid and intentionally targeted civilians in Israel’s campaign against Hamas in Gaza — charges Israeli officials deny.