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Osun distributes COVID-19 vaccine to LGAs Published The Osun State Government, on Wednesday, distributed the COVID-19 Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine to all the local government areas across the state, including Modakeke Area office. Recall that the Osun State Government received the COVID-19 Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine from the Federal Government last week. The distribution and handing over of the vaccine to each Local Government Immunization officer, at the Extended Programme on Immunization, State...

Daily Post Nigeria Published Nababa called for improved funding for the service towards delivering its mandate. He explained this would cover operations and workshops for staff capacity building, NAN reports. The CG listed dilapidated structures, inadequate arms and ammunition, increasing urbanisation around prison locations, as challenges. He said there was an urgent need to renovate some correctional centres to forestall further jailbreaks. Sen. Abba Morro (PDP – Benue South) and other memb...

Home-grown Covid vax add luster to National Vaccination Day ​ By S. Ravi ( IANS) | Published on ​ Tue, Mar 16 2021 18:03 IST | ​ 29 Views   New Delhi, March 16: Home grown Covid-19 vaccines flown to various parts of the world has added luster to Indias National Vaccination day -- an occasion celebrating the dissemination of the first dose of oral polio vaccine in 1995. With this launch, the massively successful Pulse Polio Campaign took wings. At present, one of Indias successful vac...

Philippines welcomes the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines via COVAX facility Format Joint press release by DOH, UNICEF, WHO, GAVI, CEPI 04 March 2021, Manila - Today, more than 480,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines arrived in the Philippines from the COVAX Facility, the international partnership established to ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines around the world. The Philippines is among the first countries in Southeast Asia to receive vaccines from the COVAX Facility. COVAX is co-le...

Dr. Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, Programme Manager, Expanded Programme on Immunization, Ghana Health Service, has said 30,500 Ghanaians have been vaccinated against covid-19 as of March 3, 2021.

Siddiqi, Khan, Chandir); IRD Pakistan ( Ali, Munir, Shah, Chandir); Harvard Medical School ( Khan, Chandir) "There is...a programmatic and research gap regarding strategies to improve immunization coverage and timeliness in low-literacy communities through cost-effective, sustainable solutions that...focus on transforming caregivers from passive to active recipients of immunization services." Evidence indicates that suboptimal immunisation coverage and timeliness is attributable not only to su...

President Akufo-Addo will address the nation today on measures taken against the covid-19 pandemic since March last year.

A manual containing additional information on the Covid19 vaccination in Ghana is being developed by the Information Ministry to intensify public education in the coming days, former deputy Health Minister, Dr.

  With 600,000 doses of the AstraZeneca corona vaccine made by the Serum Institute of India already in the country, with distribution to persons with underlying conditions, health workers and essential services providers already set to take off from next week, there is the need to understand one other important double-faced aspect of the vaccines we have in Ghana. Ghana has so far settled on two vaccines for the country: the AstraZeneca and Sputnik-V vaccines, but one other interesting thing a...

Tuesday, 17:07, 23/02/2021 VOV.VN - In the long term, the nation will take steps to provide free novel coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccines for citizens in the same way it offers vaccines against epidemics in the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).  Deputy Prime Minister Vu Duc Dam, head of the National Steering Committee for COVID-19 Prevention and Control chairs the meeting  This point of view was widely shared during a meeting held on February 23 in Hanoi among members of the Nati...