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Egypt Increases Number of Vaccination Centers

A coronavirus vaccination campaign in Cairo (Reuters)
A coronavirus vaccination campaign in Cairo (Reuters)
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Egypt Increases Number of Vaccination Centers

A coronavirus vaccination campaign in Cairo (Reuters)
A coronavirus vaccination campaign in Cairo (Reuters)

Egypt announced that the number of vaccination centers was raised last week to 678. A total of 512 centers are dedicated to citizens and 175 centers to travelers.

Also, Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population is providing facilitations to travelers to receive the vaccine.

The Ministry on Wednesday reported 203 new coronavirus cases and eight deaths.

A total of 286,938 cases have been reported in Egypt, alongside 16,691 deaths and 236,539 recoveries.

Health and Population Minister Hala Zayed said that 1.3 million of the State's administrative apparatus personnel were vaccinated against coronavirus.

Zayed added that 250,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid 19 vaccine were given to travelers.

The minister said the number of Egyptians seeking to be vaccinated before traveling increased from 260,000 to 760,000 over the past 72 hours. A total of 362,000 vaccination certificates with a QR code system were issued in August, she said.

In a related context, the cabinet denied postponing the beginning of the scholar year that coincides with the fourth wave of the virus.

Classes will start on the scheduled dates, the cabinet said, noting that the preventative precautions will continue to be applied to limit the spread of the virus.

The Ministry of Education and Technical Education urged workers to register on the website to guarantee to receive the two doses before the beginning of the year.

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Sudan's Army Launches Push to Retake Ground in Capital

Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan, September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer
Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan, September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer
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Sudan's Army Launches Push to Retake Ground in Capital

Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan, September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer
Plumes of smoke rise during clashes between the Rapid Support Forces and the army in Khartoum, Sudan, September 26, 2024. REUTERS/Stringer

Sudan's army launched artillery and air strikes in Sudan's capital on Thursday in its biggest operation to regain ground there since early in its 17-month war with the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), witnesses and military sources said.

The push by the army, which lost control of most of the capital at the start of the conflict, came ahead of an address by its commander, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, at the United Nations General Assembly in New York later in the day.

Witnesses reported heavy bombardments and clashes as army troops tried to cross bridges across the Nile connecting the three adjoining cities that make up the greater capital, Khartoum, Omdurman and Bahri.

"The army is carrying out heavy artillery strikes and air strikes on Halfaya and Shambat," Ahmed Abdalla, a 48-year-old resident told Reuters by phone, referring to areas of Bahri close to the river. "The sounds of explosions are very loud."

Video footage showed black smoke rising above the capital and the booms of the battle could be heard in the background.

Army sources said their forces had crossed bridges in Khartoum and Bahri. The RSF told Reuters it had thwarted the army's attempt to cross two bridges to Khartoum. Reuters could not independently confirm the accounts.

Though the army retook some ground in Omdurman early this year, it depends mostly on artillery and airstrikes and has been unable to dislodge nimble RSF ground forces embedded in other parts of the capital.

The RSF has also continued to make advances in other parts of Sudan in recent months in a conflict that has caused a vast humanitarian crisis, displacing more than 10 million people and driving parts of the country to extreme hunger or famine.

This month the battle for control of al-Fashir, the capital of North Darfur state in the west of Sudan, has also intensified as the RSF has tried to advance from positions surrounding the city against the army and allied former rebel groups.