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2021-04-30 11:30:34 GMT2021-04-30 19:30:34(Beijing Time) Xinhua English MOGADISHU, April 30 (Xinhua) -- Somalia, United Nations agencies and other partners on Friday renewed their commitments to improving vaccination coverage against COVID-19 and other vaccine-preventable diseases in the country. Somalia's health ministry, the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF and other agencies said they have been providing vaccines while observing COVID-19 protocol since last year to Somalis against preventable diseases such as measles, pertussis, diphtheria, tetanus, hepatitis B, haemophilus i...

World Immunization Week - vaccines bring us closer [EN/AR/KU] Format Baghdad, 28 April 2021 – Every year from 24 to 30 April, WHO, UNICEF, and all health partners in Iraq join the global community to celebrate World Immunization Week. This year, under the theme "vaccines bring us closer," the World Immunization Week urges greater engagement around immunization globally and at the country level to promote the importance of vaccination, and to improve health and well-being, for all. The World Immunization Week aims to promote vaccines to protect people of all ages against vaccine-preventable ...

'India is bleeding,' Priyanka Chopra sets up fund raiser to help country in COVID-19 crisis, urges all to donate On Tuesday, Priyanka reached out to US President Joe Biden to help India in its fight against the raging second wave of COVID-19. Priyanka Chopra | Instagram Updated: Apr 29, 2021, 02:16 PM IST Global star Priyanka Chopra Jonas, on Wednesday, took to Twitter to share that in her bid to join hands with fellow countrymen to fight against the deadly second wave of COVID-19, she has set up a fundraiser for India, her "home."  The actress, who is currently...

In springtime a young public health official’s fancy turns to thoughts of … masklessness. The CDC has lifted the veil, so to speak, and given fully vaccinated people license to breathe the air and see the smiles of others and mix and mingle as we did when rock was young. States will make their own rules, but CDC guidance is meant to be just that, a useful benchmark. It’s probably easiest now to think about the situations where masks are still recommended for everyone, vaccinated or not. That list includes masking up at crowded outdoor events (concerts, sports events) and indoor places s...

Published April 30, 2021, 12:00 AM Health professionals are understandably relieved that President Duterte has decided to extend until May 14 the Modified Enhanced Community Quarantine (MECQ) in the NCR Plus bubble that continues to bear the brunt of a raging pandemic. While the pressure on hospitals’ critical care facilities has eased, Health Secretary Francisco Duque III points out that the NCR Plus bubble and the other provinces in Calabarzon and Central Luzon still account for nearly nine out every 10 new infections. During the Palace meeting last April 28 at which the President’s dec...