Ghana has covered at least 400,000 children in phase one of the pilot Malaria Vaccine Implementation Program (MVIP), said an official on Thursday.l Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, manager for the Expanded Program on Immunization at the Ghana Health Service (GHS), disclosed this at a press briefing on the MVIP, which began to…
The United States is calling on North Korea to work with the international community to conduct a rapid COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the country, State Department principal deputy spokesman Vedant Patel said on Thursday. "We are very concerned about how COVID-19 could affect the North Korean people, and we continue…
A senior Zambian government official said Thursday that the country may not attain the 70 percent COVID-19 vaccination target of its eligible population by July this year. Lackson Kasonka, the permanent secretary of the Ministry of Health, said this was because people were still shunning the vaccine despite vigorous campaigns.…
Angola has been working to rein in rising malaria cases and related deaths. Luanda, the Angolan capital, registered 361,944 cases of malaria in the last three months, with 858 deaths, representing 161,850 more cases and 294 more deaths compared to the same period in 2021, the provincial supervisor of the…
Namibia's Ministry of Health and Social Services (MoHSS) will operationalize the issuance of COVID-19 digital vaccination certificates in less than two weeks, a government official said Tuesday. The move by Namibia follows the recent announcement by the South African government that travellers to South Africa are required to present digital…