vimarsana.com

Page 19 - ப்ரோக்ராம் ஆன் நோய்த்தடுப்பு News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Vaccine awareness programmes gather pace - Zimbabwe Situation

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 communication material containing frequently asked questions and answers about the pandemic and the Expanded Programme on Immunisation have been printed. Dr Hove said information was being disseminated in all the country’s 16 official languages so that everyone could understand.

UNICEF DRC Humanitarian Situation Report No 1: January 2021 - Democratic Republic of the Congo

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 the southern Central African Republic in December 2020 led to refugee outflows from the country into the northern provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The outflows were an addition to the already existent CAR refugees in North Ubangi, South Ubangi and Bas-Uele, that had arrived in 2013 and 2017. As at the 31 January 2021, 92,053 new CAR refugees had crossed over into the three DRC provinces, according to border authorities’ sources.

© 2025 Vimarsana

vimarsana © 2020. All Rights Reserved.