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Dubai: Never has the significance of vaccination been in such sharp focus as now during the COVID-19 pandemic. Keeping this in mind, the UAE Ministry of Health observed World Immunisation Week 2021, that falls in the last week of April this year, under the theme ‘Vaccines bring us closer’ and vetted by the World Health Organisation (WHO) World Immunisation Week aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against diseases, increase vaccination rates, and spread awareness on the importance of vaccinations and their influential role in eliminating communicable diseases....

April 27, 2021 A 3-year-old girl receives a vaccine shot at a community health center in Beijing, China, in this courtesy file photo. GENEVA — Global vaccine programs need protection to avoid mass outbreaks of diseases other than COVID-19 the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. The coronavirus pandemic has caused disruptions to immunization campaigns around the world, with WHO data showing 60 campaigns are currently suspended in 50 countries. This is leaving some 228 million people — mainly children — at risk of exposure to deadly vaccine-preventable disease...

Dr Yasmin Rashid urges parents to get their kids immunised Lahore April 25, 2021 LAHORE : Punjab Health Minister Dr Yasmin Rashid has urged parents to get their children immunised as Punjab commemorates World Immunisation Week from April 24 to April 30. The Immunisation Week is organised from 24 to 30 April every year. The Health Minister said immunisation programme is saving children from 11 diseases. She said an awareness campaign immunisation programme should be conducted among the general public. Immunisation saves children from polio, measles, tetanus, typhoid, pneumonia, diarrhea and ...