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02:53 pm
Saturday 12 December 2020
Books – Muhammad Nassar:
Hala Zayed, Minister of Health and Population, said that no vaccines against the viruses have been provided in pharmacies or public places in Egypt or any other country.
Zayed added, during his remarks: “Has it happened in the history of Egypt or other countries that vaccines for any disease are in public places? No, the state supports distributing these vaccines to recipients.”
The Minister of Health stated: “We are in an epidemic that requires this vaccine to be freely available to eligible medical personnel, the elderly, and people with chronic illnesses, and can be imposed with fees as part of travel procedures.” .
And the minister continued: “What has given priority to certain groups is limited production, if it happened that obtaining the vaccine was imposed as part of the travel procedures at that time, there would be certain fees, but if I am a of the people who took the vaccine, they could travel with it, if it is not among those eligible and necessary. He travels, doing something out of emergency and necessity, and this personal purpose will be available according to priority because there is not enough global production for all people. “
She said: “The vaccines are approved after the completion of various investigations, noting that the Sinopharma vaccine has been tested in more than 6 countries, including Egypt, on 45,000 volunteers, and after verifying its effectiveness and safety, and then obtained the emergency approval as approved by the World Health Organization “. .
Zayed added: “The specialized committee set priorities for Egypt regarding vaccines, and the dossier was sent to the Egyptian Medicines Authority, which issues the emergency approval, and obtained final approval in the Emirates. The 45,000 people who were subjected to the experiments did not show unexpected complications in any case “.
The minister indicated that the Sinopharm vaccine for Corona is like any other vaccine that causes a temperature increase of two days by an average of half a degree, and so far there have been no complications due to it.
Dr. Hala Zayed said: “Regarding the manufacture of Sinovac, we concluded the agreement and took all the legislative approvals. The production line was reviewed and we asked the experts from the World Health Organization. In fact, they came and they concluded a report on the production capacity of the line, and we are currently in the negotiation stage with the Chinese company to start manufacturing. “
Zayed indicated that they are working with AstraZeneca Egypt, and several steps have been agreed, in addition to moving forward to reserve 20 million doses from the Jaffe Union. Follow-up: “At the beginning, I will approve some vaccines in terms of buying at reduced prices, and the countries available from them are given,” Zayed said. Any country that says I want this vaccine is entitled to this vaccine, and the vaccines that have been approved by the Union are AstraZeneca, Moderna and Pfizer.
He indicated that the reason the Chinese Sinopharma vaccine was not approved by the Jaffe Union is the price dispute, and that Egypt has the results of 45,000 people who underwent vaccine trials in 6 countries, and there is also a chain of cold enough for this vaccine to accommodate more than 110 million doses at the required temperature. Company from 2 to 8 degrees.
He added: “The registry and its mechanisms will be available through the website this week, and there are other batches of the Chinese vaccine that will arrive successively until the end of the month, and they are negotiating with the Jaffe Alliance and more than one international company to obtain vaccines “.
And he added: “The first doses are for medical teams in isolation, chest and fever hospitals, and then for those with chronic diseases, a clause according to the global health instructions, the most vulnerable group and most affected in case of infection. by crown, the most vulnerable are isolation hospitals, central laboratories, quarantine and others, and the most affected group are those with chronic diseases. ” Registered patients with kidney failure, tumors, diabetes, heart disease and obesity, who have diseases such as corona, are still more vulnerable to serious complications.
And he stressed that: “Sinopharma and Sinovac or any Vaxin, one of the vaccines that are considered safe in circulation, the Corona vaccine, like the rest of vaccines, is not the preferred one for pregnant women, infants and children under 16 years of age, but it is highly safe and there are no specific cases that prevent its taking “.
And he said: “What Corona experienced is the possibility of being infected again. There are cases in Egypt that he has visited 3 times, and the immunity that appears as a consequence of the antibodies that they aspirate from the virus itself is short-term immunity, and that is why short-duration faxes responded, such as influenza faxes, the vaccine we received 86% of the total. He contracted it and was exposed to corona did not hurt, and 100% of 14% of them had a simple corona, neither moderate nor severe, and 99% of the person who took the vaccine produced antibodies.
