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  The world’s first and only national-scale drone delivery service, Zipline has announced the delivery of over 1 million program vaccine doses to rural and hard-to-reach areas of Ghana. The vaccines were delivered within Zipline’s catchment areas at Omenako, Mpanya, Vobsi, and Sefwi Wiaso. According to the company, in addition to their original mandate of delivering emergency medical components, they have partnered with the Expanded Program on Immunization to be the sole distributor of vaccines to a number of facilities within their operational areas that have challenges with cold storag...

2021-01-28 11:36:41 GMT2021-01-28 19:36:41(Beijing Time) Xinhua English HARARE, Jan. 28 (Xinhua) -- Zimbabwe plans to rely on an immunization program already in place for other diseases to roll out COVID-19 vaccines as soon as they arrive. The Director of Epidemiology and Disease Control with the Health Ministry, Portia Manangazira, told the Parliamentary Committee on Health that the national COVID-19 vaccine readiness assessment had already been done, state-run Herald newspaper reported Thursday. Manangazira said the Health Ministry came up with a deployment strategy that would be use...

Afghanistan prepares to vaccinate citizens against coronavirus amid ongoing violence Posted WedWednesday 27 JanJanuary 2021 at 7:40am The vaccination program is expected to cover 20 per cent of the country's 38 million people. ( Print text only Cancel Afghanistan is preparing to carry out a coronavirus vaccination campaign that has received $US112 million ($144 million) in support from the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX program. Key points: The Afghan Health Minister said it would take six months to get the vaccines COVAX is a global scheme to vaccinate people in poorer countries Th...

news Nurse to get first jab as vaccine trial run begins today The New Nation By Mass inoculations programme of Covid-19 across the country will start on February 7 with seven million vaccine doses in stock. Besides, vaccination in limited scale among frontline health workers will begin at Kurmitola General Hospital at 3:30pm on Wednesday. About 25 health workers will be inoculated at the very beginning in the hospital. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the programme through video conference from her office. Health Minister Zahid Maleque announced it on Tuesday af...

Headquaters of the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Congo Town The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Health (MOH) and its Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) has disclosed that Liberia has applied for the COVID-19 vaccine. Making the disclosure on Tuesday 19, 2011, MOH Communications Director Felecia Gbesioh told the Daily Observer via mobile phone that following the submission of the Ministry’s application Liberia was granted the go-ahead.   She, however, did not state when will the vaccine arrive in the country, but clarified that application for the new vaccine has left the c...