The Russian Direct Investment Fund said yesterday, Wednesday, that Egypt had agreed to use the Russian (Sputnik) vaccine to prevent the Corona epidemic, according to what was reported by Reuters.
Thus, Egypt becomes the 34th country outside Russia and the third in North Africa to register the Russian vaccine.
The fund responsible for marketing the vaccine abroad said that the Egyptian Medicines Authority had approved the emergency use of the vaccine.
The effectiveness of the Russian vaccine is 91.6%, according to the data published on its official website, while the price of one dose for foreign markets is less than $ 10, and the vaccine recipient needs two doses. / p>
and the sovereign fund announced at the beginning of this month during an Internet conference, that the results of the third stage confirmed the safety of the vaccine that it developed for the Corona virus, and that the vaccine had been tested on 35 thousand cases.
The head of the Russian sovereign fund said: Our vaccine is one of 3 vaccines in the world with an efficacy exceeding 90%, and the price of a single dose is less than 10 dollars and is kept between 2 to 8 degrees Celsius. .
The temperature of preservation of the vaccine allows it to be distributed more easily around the world compared to the Pfizer-Modern vaccine, which needs a temperature of 70 degrees below zero for preservation.
