Egypt’s Health Ministry has announced that Cairo contacted six international companies to secure coronavirus vaccines.
Egypt's Minister of Health Dr. Hala Zayed stated that there are six vaccines in the world that have reached the stage of clinical trial.
The ministry has worked with all companies producing the vaccines, including that of Oxford University, and Chinese firms, ordering a suitable quantity, she said.
Egypt reported on Saturday an infection tally of 97,148 since the outbreak in mid-February.
The health ministry also reported 19 patients have died, bringing the death toll from the virus to 5,231.
The statement said that the total number of recoveries reached 64,318.
Zayed announced that Egypt has overcome the first wave of the coronavirus despite its lack of experience in confronting such a pandemic.
The health minister emphasized that all patients can respond to treatment, saying that home isolation reduced the recovery period from the COVID.19 disease.
Meanwhile, Egyptian Minister of Endowments Mohammed Mokhtar Jomaa ordered all directorates to carry out "a wide scale campaign for cleaning and disinfection in all mosques across the country to prepare for the return of Friday prayers."
He instructed that social distancing signs continue to be placed in all mosques, and further stressed the attendance of all workers in mosques, including imams and workers.
Worshipers and mosque supervisors must abide by 13 measures during Friday prayers including social distancing, wearing a mask, using a personal prayer rug, opening the mosque ten minutes before prayer and closing it immediately after it.
Sermons should last not more than ten minutes, toilets and halls for holding social events should remain closed alongside shrines, and funeral prayers should remain banned inside mosques.
