Egypt has received a batch of more than 1.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through the Covax initiative and a separate shipment of 500,000 Sinopharm vaccine doses from China, the health ministry said.According to AP, the country received its first Covax delivery of 854,000 AstraZeneca doses at the start of April. It has also received several shipments of the Sinopharm vaccine, bringing the total number of vaccine doses delivered to five million, the health ministry said.

Egypt has an agreement for the supply of 20m Sinopharm doses, and has been allocated 4.5m doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine through Covax.