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2021-04-30 11:30:34 GMT2021-04-30 19:30:34(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MOGADISHU, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Somalia, United Nations agencies and other partners on Friday renewed their commitments to improving vaccination coverage against COVID-19 and other vaccine-preventable diseases in the country. Somalias health ministry, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and other agencies said they have been providing vaccines while observing COVID-19 protocol since last year to Somalis again...

World Immunization Week - vaccines bring us closer [EN/AR/KU] Format Baghdad, 28 April 2021 – Every year from 24 to 30 April, WHO, UNICEF, and all health partners in Iraq join the global community to celebrate World Immunization Week. This year, under the theme "vaccines bring us closer," the World Immunization Week urges greater engagement around immunization globally and at the country level to promote the importance of vaccination, and to improve health and well-being, for all. The World I...

India is bleeding, Priyanka Chopra sets up fund raiser to help country in COVID-19 crisis, urges all to donate On Tuesday, Priyanka reached out to US President Joe Biden to help India in its fight against the raging second wave of COVID-19. Priyanka Chopra | Instagram Updated: Apr 29, 2021, 02:16 PM IST Global star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, on Wednesday, took to Twitter to share that in her bid to join hands with fellow countrymen to fight against the deadly second wa...

In springtime a young public health official’s fancy turns to thoughts of … masklessness. The CDC has lifted the veil, so to speak, and given fully vaccinated people license to breathe the air and see the smiles of others and mix and mingle as we did when rock was young. States will make their own rules, but CDC guidance is meant to be just that, a useful benchmark. It’s probably easiest now to think about the situations where masks are still recommended for everyone, vaccinated or not. T...

Published April 30, 2021, 12:00 AM Health professionals are understandably relieved that President Duterte has decided to extend until May 14 the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) in the NCR Plus bubble that continues to bear the brunt of a raging pandemic. While the pressure on hospitals’ critical care facilities has eased, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III points out that the NCR Plus bubble and the other provinces in Calabarzon and Central Luzon still account for nearly nine...

The global roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines continues. Image: REUTERS/Jorge Silva - RC2R4N9GSO3V 28 Apr 2021 The World Economic Forum held an Issue Briefing to mark World Immunization Week. Experts from around the globe discussed how can we ensure vaccine equity, build trust in COVID-19 vaccines and strengthen health systems. Here are some of the key quotes from the panellists. But the vast majority of these have been in developed countries, meaning the pandemic con...

By Sue Tiffin Last week, I donned a mask, and then another one, and then a face shield, and I walked into another building in this county for the first time in 407 days. I told the nurse who was administering my first dose of COVID-19 vaccine that I might cry, and because I am hilarious, added that it wasn’t necessarily a side effect of the shot. But in all honesty, it really was – not for the needle part, because like many others I didn’t feel a thing – but for the euphoria in being a ...

UNICEFs remarks at the WHO (EMRO) Press Conference on World Immunization Week 2021 and COVID-19 Format 27 April 2021 AMMAN/CAIRO My friend Dr. Ahmad Al-Manthari, Distinguished colleagues from the press corps, Good day to you all and Ramadan Kareem. I join Dr. Ahmed in thanking you for being with us today at this press conference to mark World Immunization Week. These events are testimony to our partnership and the work we continue to do together in the area of health including to respond to th...

Opening remarks by Dr Ahmed Al-Mandhari, Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, for the World Immunization Week press briefing Format 27 April 2021 – Thank you for joining us today for this special press briefing to mark World Immunization Week. This year, the development and roll-out of COVID-19 vaccines sheds a new light on World Immunization Week. It shows us all in real time just how critical immunization is to control deadly diseases and save lives. Before we talk more about im...

Priyanka Chopra appeals to Joe Biden requesting COVID-19 assistance for India ANI | Updated: Apr 27, 2021 16:56 IST New Delhi [India], April 27 (India): Global star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, on Tuesday, reached out to US President Joe Biden, World Health Organisation (WHO), and other US government officials to help India in its fight against the raging second wave of COVID-19. The actor took to her Twitter handle and urged Biden, and other US government offici...