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[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...

  The world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, Zipline has announced the delivery of over 1 million program vaccine doses to rural and hard-to-reach areas of Ghana. The vaccines were delivered within Zipline’s catchment areas at Omenako, Mpanya, Vobsi, and Sefwi Wiaso. According to the company, in addition to their original mandate of delivering emergency medical components, they have partnered with the Expanded Program on Immunization to be the sole distributor of vac...

2021-01-28 11:36:41 GMT2021-01-28 19:36:41(Beijing Time) Xinhua English HARARE, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe plans to rely on an immunization program already in place for other diseases to roll out COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they arrive. The Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control with the Health Ministry, Portia Manangazira, told the Parliamentary Committee on Health that the national COVID-19 vaccine readiness assessment had already been done, state-run Herald newspaper reported...

news Nurse to get first jab as vaccine trial run begins today The New Nation By Mass inoculations programme of Covid-19 across the country will start on February 7 with seven million vaccine doses in stock. Besides, vaccination in limited scale among frontline health workers will begin at Kurmitola General Hospital at 3:30pm on Wednesday. About 25 health workers will be inoculated at the very beginning in the hospital. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the programm...

Headquaters of the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Congo Town The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Health (MOH) and its Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) has disclosed that Liberia has applied for the COVID-19 vaccine. Making the disclosure on Tuesday 19, 2011, MOH Communications Director Felecia Gbesioh told the Daily Observer via mobile phone that following the submission of the Ministry’s application Liberia was granted the go-ahead.   She, however, did not state when will ...

Pakistan said Thursday it will receive half-a-million free doses of China's Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccine by January 31.     Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi made the announcement at a news conference, saying his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, shared the “good news” in a phone call between the two officials.      “He told me, ‘Send your aircraft and immediately airlift this drug.’ So, this is a welcome news for us. And we will, God willing, succeed in saving many lives,” ...

Senator Richard Gordon on Tuesday said he filed a bill seeking to expand the countrys pool of vaccinators for the national immunization program to include other health professionals, students, as well as those without medical background, ahead of the arrival of the COVID-19 vaccine.

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