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Pakistan sends plane to China to acquire coronavirus vaccine 500,000 doses, will be administered to health workers SAMAA | Arham Fatima - Posted: Jan 31, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago SAMAA | Arham Fatima Posted: Jan 31, 2021 | Last Updated: 2 months ago Photo: AFP A Pakistan Air Force plane has left for China to acquire 500,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccine for free. The government’s National Command and Operation Centre confirmed this Sunday. It said that China had...

1.8m children to get anti-typhoid shots in Rawalpindi 123 union councils have been selected for immunisation Typhoid. PHOTO: REUTERS RAWALPINDI: The Health Services Department under its Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI) has launched its anti-typhoid campaign in Rawalpindi under which 1.876 million children between the ages of 9 months and 15 years will be vaccinated. Health Services Director (EPI Punjab) Dr Bashir Ahmed Siddiqui on Friday inaugurated the campaign by vaccinating children...

15-Day Typhoid Vaccination Drive in Rawalpindi to Begin on 1 Feb ALSO READ The anti-typhoid campaign will run for 15 days, and a public awareness drive will be carried out simultaneously in collaboration with UNICEF. Teams from the Health Department will visit educational institutes and other areas to vaccinate children. About 1,101 EPI teams will be involved in the campaign, and 225 supervisory union councils will oversee it. The first phase of the campaign in which the children in the distric...

South Africa has struggled to secure adequate stock of urgently needed Covid-19 vaccines. This has raised questions about the state of the country’s local vaccine manufacturing capacity and why, after almost two decades of government support, South Africa’s partially state-owned vaccine manufacturer the Biovac Institute (Biovac) is not better positioned to respond to the pandemic. What then did 17 years of state investment in Biovac get us? As often is the case, the answer is both more nua...

DOH, LGUs and Partners to Conduct Phase 2 of Month-long Nationwide MR-OPV SIA Starting February 1 Format Joint press release CAVITE, Philippines – After a successful nationwide Measles Rubella and Oral Polio Vaccine Supplemental Immunization Activity (MR-OPV SIA) Phase I last year in the Mindanao, Cordillera, Ilocos, Cagayan Valley, MIMAROPA and Bicol Regions with a coverage of 93% for Measles Rubella (MR) Vaccine and 89% for Oral Polio Vaccine (OPV), the Phase 2 of the vaccination campaign w...

Taliban backs vaccine drive as Afghan government receives $112 million funding pledge By Hamid Shalizi and Abdul Qadir Sediqi FILE PHOTO: A UNICEF worker helps an internally displaced girl put on a face mask at a makeshift camp, amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, in Jalalabad KABUL (Reuters) – The Taliban militant movement gave its backing on Tuesday for a coronavirus vaccination campaign in Afghanistan that has received a $112 million pledge from the World Health O...

Tuesday, 9th February 2021 | 6:30 PM IST LIVE ON FACEBOOK In 1977, smallpox eradication lead to improved health systems, trained manpower to administer vaccines, infrastructure and systems to store vaccines and a network for surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases. The lessons from this success were used universally to strengthen public healthcare, vaccination and develop a pool of public health professionals. In 1978, after it was declared free of smallpox, India launched the National Imm...

Accepting Vaccination: Why Change In Communication Strategy Turned The Tides A growing number of Cameroonians regard vaccination with skepticism. This is partly explained by ignorance and the rumours often peddled on social media on the “demerits” or supposed risks of vaccination. Of late, the situation was worsened by the stance of two Roman Catholic Church dioceses whose bishops openly declared they would allow their female parishioners to be vaccinated against Central African Republ...

Taliban backs vaccine drive as Afghan government receives $112m funding pledge 27 January 2021 - 08:51 By Reuters The immunisation drive will have to take place amid relentless violence in the country despite the government and the Taliban insurgents opening peace talks in September. Image: REUTERS/Adnan Abidi/ File photo The Taliban militant movement gave its backing on Tuesday for a coronavirus vaccination campaign in Afghanistan that has received a $112m pledge fro...

Taliban endorses Covid vaccination drive as WHO pledges to aid Afghanistan Taliban endorses Covid vaccination drive as WHO pledges to aid Afghanistan Afghanistan has registered 54,854 infections and 2,390 deaths - but experts say cases are significantly underreported due to low testing and limited access to medical facilities in the war-torn country. advertisement UPDATED: January 27, 2021 18:49 IST [REPRESENTATIVE IMAGE] File photo of a young boy walks past a wall depicting Washingtons peace e...