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I am sure the Prez will look at free water again -Abena Dapaah With Covid-19 still ravaging the Ghanaian economy, the Minister-designate for Sanitation & Water Resources, Madam Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has indicated that President Akufo-Addo might look at the provision of free water again. She made the comments at the ongoing vetting of ministers-designate by the Appointment Committee of Parliament. Her comments follows a question thrown to her by Mr James Agalga, a Member of the committee, if the...

When supply is enough, all Vietnamese will be inoculated free of charge

  Dean of the School of Performing Arts at the University of Ghana, Professor Kofi Agyekum, popularly known as Opanyin Agyekum has called on government to begin public education on the COVID-19 vaccines. Ghana will receive her first batch of vaccines starting on Monday, March 1, 2021. Information Minister-designate, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah disclosed this during Conference and Donor Presentation for the Sustainable Development of Yendi Municipal Hospital on Sunday. According to Ghana’s Program...

2021-02-20 17:04 　 By: Xinhua 　 ACCRA, Feb. 19 (Xinhua) -- Ghana will begin to vaccinate some 20 million persons against COVID-19 from the first week of March, said Kwame Amponsa-Akyianu, Ghanas program manager for the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) on Friday. Speaking at an engagement on Ghanas COVID-19 roll-out plan, he observed that the vision of the country is to vaccinate the entire population of about 31 million but will begin with 2...

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Speaking at an engagement on Ghanas Covid-19 roll-out plan, he observed that the vision of the country is to vaccinate the entire population of about 31 million but will begin with 20 million and vaccinate the remaining population in due course, the Xinhua news agency reported.Ampo

Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of routine immunization services in Lebanon Ziad Mansour, Jinan Arab , Randa Hamadeh, Bernard Gerbaka, Roles Writing – review & editing Affiliation Division of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Emergencies, Department of Pediatrics, Hôtel-Dieu de France, Beirut, Lebanon ⨯ Abdul Rahman Bizri Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department o...

[Photo: Edward Parsons/IRIN] A four-day polio vaccination campaign commenced in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State on Tuesday targeting more than 29,000 children aged between 0-5 years across the state, officials said. An official at the Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State’s health ministry, John Agany Deng said around 800 vaccinators were deployed after the ministry received vaccines from Juba. “The state has been preparing to launch the second round, especially for polio vaccination...

(MENAFN - Newsroom Panama) Panama will receive the second batch of  62,859 Pfizer vaccines early Wednesday morning. The new doses will continue phase 1-A and start phase 1-B. Once the drug arrives in the country, it will be transferred to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) , from there the distribution will begin immediately with the objective that on Wednesday morning the vaccines will be available at  vaccination sites . Eduardo Ortega, director of the National Secretariat for Sc...

(MENAFN - Tribal News Network) PESHAWAR: Naazir Afridi was one of the many parents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who have been refusing to vaccinate their children against the poliovirus due to the doubts in their minds about the vaccine. He had not been allowing the polio workers to enter his home during the regular immunization drives. He understood that the poliovirus did not exist and the immunization drive was nothing but a drama, scripted by some Western NGOs for their vested interests. He could...