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Subscriber only Britain has passed the milestone of vaccinating 20 million adults with two doses of the coronavirus jab, just a day before a raft of restrictions are lifted across most of the country. According to government statistics, 20,103,658 million have now received their full two vaccine doses - 38.2 per cent of the adult population. Still more have received a first dose - 36,573,354, or 69.4 per cent of the adult population - with a total of 56,677,012 million vaccines administered since the start of the UK s campaign on December 8. Health Secretary Matt Hancock said the vaccine program had made extraordinary strides in reaching the 20-million mark.
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Country: Gambia
Planning, designing, implementation, evaluation and coordination overall health promotion and protection interventions for the Ministry of Health;
Provision of guidance and support to the formulation of appropriate policies and strategies in support of the implementation of public health interventions including health promotion and protection;
Responsible for the regulation of health information dissemination in the country;
Fostering collaboration between the health and other sectors of government as well as institutions, organizations and the private sector to address the broad determinants of health;
Supporting and coordinating formulation of and/ or strengthen the implementation of national health promotion policy and national health policy, legislations or strategies for tobacco control in line with the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control;
Author Professor of International Health, Burnet Institute
The panel, co-chaired by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, criticises the World Health Organization (WHO) for its tardy actions during the first months of 2020.
The WHO was slow to warn of person-to-person transmission after it first received this information in Wuhan, China, in early January.
And it was slow to declare a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), which it did on January 30.
The WHO also opposed international travel restrictions that, if implemented earlier, might have slowed the international spread of the virus. By the time the PHEIC was declared, COVID-19 had spread to 18 countries outside China.
Urgent global action is needed to end the COVID-19 pandemic and prepare for future threats, according to a new report by the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response.
The panel, co-chaired by former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark and former Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, criticises the World Health Organization (WHO) for its tardy actions during the first months of 2020.
The WHO was slow to warn of person-to-person transmission after it first received this information in Wuhan, China, in early January.
And it was slow to declare a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC), which it did on January 30.