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• 12 million people fall in age bracket of 40-50 • Walk-in facility allowed for people over 50 • 70 die, 4,825 contract virus in single day • Ulema to extend assistance in SOPs’ enforcement ISLAMABAD: In a major development, the National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Monday decided to open registration of around 12 million people in the age group of 40 to 50 years and allowed walk-in vaccination facility for citizens over 50. Minister for Planning and Development Asad U...

Vaccine awareness programmes gather pace Thupeyo Muleya Beitbridge Bureau Covid-19 education and awareness campaigns have been intensified across the country to promote the mass vaccination programme in high-risk areas, including border towns. Chief director in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr Maxwell Hove, said teams had been deployed nationwide to explain the vaccines and answer questions. Some teams were static, while others were mobile and more information, education and communicat...

UNICEF DRC Humanitarian Situation Report No. 1: January 2021 Format Highlights As of 31st January 2021, the COVID-19 outbreak has affected 22 out of the 26 provinces in the DRC, with a total of 22,842 confirmed cases. The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has already reported a total of 5,221 suspected measles cases. According to statistics provided by the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (PEV), more than 41% of cases are located in the province of Sud Ubangi. A resurgence of violence in th...

In a move to strengthen the cold chain system of the country’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Sierra Leone, with support from GAVI, today handed over two vehicles and Cold Chain Equipment to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. The two vehicles will be used for the strengthening of the national EPI Programme Management and Oversight function through regular monitoring and supervisory visits to service delivery level. The vehicles w...

Content provided by Last updated: 5 hours ago In a move to strengthen the cold chain system of the country’s Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) in Sierra Leone, with support from GAVI, today handed over two vehicles and Cold Chain Equipment to the Ministry of Health and Sanitation. The two vehicles will be used for the strengthening of the national EPI Programme Management ...

KARACHI: Lawmakers belonging to the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf on Saturday lamented the Sindh government for keeping the opposition out of budget-making process and demanded that a pre-budget consultation session be convened. Leader of the Opposition in the Sindh Assembly Haleem Adil Shaikh, PTI’s parliamentary leader Bilal Ghaffar, MPA Khurram Sher Zaman and other MPAs told a press conference here that the Sindh government was required to initiate a pre-budget consultation as per the rules. Mr...

Friday, April 02, 2021 08:36 By April 6, a total of 19 cities and provinces had rolled out the vaccinations, administering the AstraZeneca vaccine to 53,953 people (Photo: VNA) Hanoi (VNA) – The Ministry of Health on April 7 issued a decision on the allocation of 811,200 doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to all 63 cities and provinces, and other agencies. They are the first vaccine doses supplied by the COVAX Facility through UNICEF, which arrived in Hanoi on April 1. Hanoi and Ho Chi Mi...

The drive, aimed at children below the age of five, began with 12 districts identified by the department of health as being in urgent need of catching up. The plan was for these 12 districts to catch up by the end of January, after which the rest of the country would follow. However, it appears that the drive did not meet its targets in the priority districts by the end of January, and not all 12 districts started on time. Spotlight has only seen data on progress in the priority districts up to...

One year into the pandemic: What lessons have we learnt? Another glaring deficiency is the lack of adequate high flow oxygen delivery systems across hospitals in the country. Photo: Anisur Rahman As I settle down to pen this write-up, the incessant calls and messages on my phone serve as a poignant reminder of how our lives have been reshaped and defaced by the Covid-19 pandemic. In response, I offer what medical advice I can regarding Covid tests, treatment and follow-up, but cant oblige the r...

One-hundred-year-old Israel Ahmed Meenai gets the coronavirus vaccine. Israel Ahmed Menai, a 100-year-old man from Karachi’s DHA neighbourhood, has become Pakistan’s oldest person to get vaccinated against Covid-19, Sindh’s health officials said on Tuesday. They described the centenarian being healthy and in good spirits after the jab. “The staff of the adult vaccination centre [AVC] at the Aga Khan University Hospital [AKUH] was astonished to learn that a 100-year-old person had come t...