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Egypt Receives 3.8 Million Doses of Pfizer Vaccines

Egypt received 3.89 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. (Egyptian Health Ministry)
Egypt received 3.89 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. (Egyptian Health Ministry)
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Egypt Receives 3.8 Million Doses of Pfizer Vaccines

Egypt received 3.89 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. (Egyptian Health Ministry)
Egypt received 3.89 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine. (Egyptian Health Ministry)

Egypt on Sunday received 3.89 million doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, acting Health Minister Khaled Abdel Ghaffar said.

Abdel Ghaffar said the shipment, which was delivered through the COVAX initiative and in cooperation with the Vaccine Alliance (GAVI), arrived at Cairo International Airport on Saturday evening.

He said the vaccine is approved for emergency use by the World Health Organization and is administered as two doses, 21 days apart.

The shipment will be tested at the authority’s labs before being distributed to vaccination centers across the country.

Egypt had started its vaccination campaign in January.

Meanwhile, the Health Ministry announced that 931 new coronavirus cases were recorded in the past 24 hours, upping the total in the country to 355,767.

It said 68 people have died from virus-related complications, raising the death toll to 20,305.

Abdel Ghaffar said Egypt managed in a short time to provide all coronavirus vaccines, including Sputnik, Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, Moderna, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson to the population.

The Health Ministry again urged citizens to register online to receive the vaccine.

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Israel Carries Out More Airstrikes Deep inside Lebanon

File photo: This picture taken from an Israeli position along the border with southern Lebanon shows smoke billowing above the Lebanese village of Adaisseh during Israeli bombardment on January 22, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. (AFP)
File photo: This picture taken from an Israeli position along the border with southern Lebanon shows smoke billowing above the Lebanese village of Adaisseh during Israeli bombardment on January 22, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. (AFP)
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Israel Carries Out More Airstrikes Deep inside Lebanon

File photo: This picture taken from an Israeli position along the border with southern Lebanon shows smoke billowing above the Lebanese village of Adaisseh during Israeli bombardment on January 22, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. (AFP)
File photo: This picture taken from an Israeli position along the border with southern Lebanon shows smoke billowing above the Lebanese village of Adaisseh during Israeli bombardment on January 22, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza. (AFP)

Israeli warplanes carried three airstrikes deep into eastern Lebanon on Friday for the second time since a ceasefire ended the war between Hezbollah and Israel a month ago, Lebanon’s state-run news agency said.
No casualties were reported in the strikes on the Bekaa Valley town of Qousaya and the target remained unclear. The Israeli military said its air force struck “infrastructure used to smuggle weapons via Syria” to Hezbollah near the Janta crossing on the Syrian-Lebanese border, about 9 kilometers (5 miles) north of Qousaya. Israel accused Hezbollah’s Unit 4400 of overseeing smuggling operations from Iran through Syria, adding that it had killed the unit’s commander in early October, reported The Associated Press.
Since the ceasefire took effect on Nov. 27, the Israeli army has conducted near-daily operations in southern Lebanon, including shootings, house demolitions, excavations, tank shelling and airstrikes. These actions have killed at least 27 people, wounded more than 30 and destroyed residential buildings, including a mosque.
The United Nations peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL, said it has observed “concerning actions” by Israeli forces, including the destruction of homes and road closures.
On Thursday, the Lebanese army accused Israeli troops of breaching the ceasefire by encroaching into southern Lebanon. Israeli bulldozers erected dirt barricades to block roads in Wadi Al-Hujayr.
The Lebanese army later on Thursday said that following intervention by the ceasefire supervision committee, Israeli forces withdrew, and Lebanese soldiers removed the barriers to reopen the road in the area.
The US-brokered ceasefire, which ended the 14-month war, demands that Hezbollah and Israeli forces withdraw from southern Lebanon within 60 days, allowing Lebanese troops to gradually deploy south of the Litani River.