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Speaking at an engagement on Ghana's Covid-19 roll-out plan, he observed that the vision of the country is to vaccinate the entire population of about 31 million but will begin with 20 million and vaccinate the remaining population in due course, the Xinhua news agency reported.Ampo
Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on the utilization of routine immunization services in Lebanon Ziad Mansour, Jinan Arab , Randa Hamadeh, Bernard Gerbaka, Roles Writing – review & editing Affiliation Division of Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and Pediatric Emergencies, Department of Pediatrics, Hôtel-Dieu de France, Beirut, Lebanon ⨯ Abdul Rahman Bizri Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon ⨯ Impact of...
[Photo: Edward Parsons/IRIN] A four-day polio vaccination campaign commenced in South Sudan’s Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State on Tuesday targeting more than 29,000 children aged between 0-5 years across the state, officials said. An official at the Northern Bahr-el-Ghazal State’s health ministry, John Agany Deng said around 800 vaccinators were deployed after the ministry received vaccines from Juba. “The state has been preparing to launch the second round, especially for polio vaccination operations. We managed to employ 825 teams of vaccinators across the five counties of Northern Bahr...
(MENAFN - Newsroom Panama) Panama will receive the second batch of 62,859 Pfizer vaccines early Wednesday morning. The new doses will continue phase 1-A and start phase 1-B. Once the drug arrives in the country, it will be transferred to the Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) , from there the distribution will begin immediately with the objective that on Wednesday morning the vaccines will be available at vaccination sites . Eduardo Ortega, director of the National Secretariat for Science, Technology, and Innovation (Senacyt) , explained that phase 1 includes first-line health per...
(MENAFN - Tribal News Network) PESHAWAR: Naazir Afridi was one of the many parents in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa who have been refusing to vaccinate their children against the poliovirus due to the doubts in their minds about the vaccine. He had not been allowing the polio workers to enter his home during the regular immunization drives. He understood that the poliovirus did not exist and the immunization drive was nothing but a drama, scripted by some Western NGOs for their vested interests. He could not believe that the poliovirus could cripple a child for the whole life. His perception about the ...