Egypt advances export goal for jabs China Daily | Updated: 2021-07-14 09:53 Airport staff members unload the first batch of Chinese Sinovac vaccine raw materials from a plane at the Cairo International Airport in Cairo, Egypt, May 21, 2021. [Photo/Xinhua]
CAIRO－Egypt celebrated the local production of the first 1 million doses of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine on Monday, seeking to meet domestic demand first before exporting to other countries in the region.
The Egyptian Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines, or VACSERA, and Chinese biopharmaceutical company Sinovac signed two agreements in April to jointly manufacture the vaccine in VACSERA s factory in the North African country.
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