Vaccine Nationalism, Tight Supplies And Dodgy Data: How The Global Vaccine Roll Out Is Hitting Hurdles
Vaccine nationalism has become a growing concern in recent months
30 January
The development of the Covid-19 vaccination has offered the world a route out of the pandemic, but the deployment of the jab has already been hit by several major snags. PoliticsHome details the growing row over the global vaccination effort.
UK Supplies Becoming “Tight”
As the first country in the world to approve a vaccination for widespread use to combat coronavirus, the UK has had a significant head start on the vaccination programme. One in nine adults have already received their first dose.
Some researchers suggest that a single-dose regimen of available vaccines might offer a lower, but still substantial level of protection against Covid-19.
Think of how different the impact of additional disruptions in schooling will be for children in varied socioeconomic circumstances. A child who has a private room, laptop and well-educated parents with sufficient time to support home schooling will have a very different learning experience to one who shares a room with siblings, has no internet access and whose parents are busy working, or who do not speak English well enough to help them learn at home. The latter child is also less likely to have access to a garden. Hence rules that limit access to schools and time outside the house could have a spiralling impact on educational attainment, hunger and mental and physical health.
KP set to provide free healthcare to 14m more people
Peshawar
December 29, 2020
PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government is set to provide free healthcare services to 14 million people under the Sehat Sahulat Programme from the 1st January 2021.
Health Minister Taimur Saleem Jhagra, who is also holding the portfolio of finance, told The News from January 1, the next year, the Universal Health Insurance Programme would be extended to six more districts of the province.
He said the initiation of the free medical treatment in Hazara Division has collectively increased admissions in public sector hospitals by 153 per cent.The minister said that Sehat Sahulat Card is a revolutionary project of the KP government under which poor and middle-class of the society would receive a free medical treatment facility up to Rs1 million annually.