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COVID-19: Egypt to start offering vaccine booster shots

Senior citizens, people with chronic diseases, healthcare workers to be given top-up

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Cairo: Egypt will activate within days a plan to offer COVID-19 vaccine booster shots for senior citizens, people with chronic diseases and healthcare workers, the health ministry said in a statement on Wednesday.

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