Egypt’s government started on Monday enforcing a decision to ban unvaccinated employees from entering their workplaces, as well as not allowing unvaccinated students to university.
The Supreme Committee for Coronavirus Crisis Management, headed by Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, decided on October 17, not to allow any unvaccinated employee to enter their workplace after November 15.
Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar, acting Minister of Health, said that the government is expanding the process of vaccinating citizens, as currently more than 500,000 doses are being administered per day.
More than 90 percent of Egyptian university students have been vaccinated so far. It is expected that the rate of vaccination among Egyptian students will rise after the governmental decisions, as officials confirmed that only students who have been vaccinated will enter the exams, and then the coming days will witness the completion of the vaccination of the rest of the students.
Under the orders of Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the ministry is allocating efforts to vaccinate university students, administrative workers, and those in the country’s healthcare sector.
Egypt has thus far succeeded in providing all types of vaccines against the coronavirus, according to Egyptian officials.
Egypt’s vaccination campaign began in January with priority groups and later expanded to university students, aiming to vaccinate 40% of its population.
The country has administered at least 30,563,571 doses of COVID vaccines so far, which is enough to have vaccinated about 15.2% of the country’s population that counting up to 102.3 mln, according to Reuters.
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