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Vaccinations helping the district get ‘One Step Closer’ to normal SHARE ON: Dr. Carol Zimbalatti, Public Health Physician (top right), Louise Gagné, Executive Director of Community Services(centre left), and Andrea McLellan, Director of COVID-19 Immunization Strategy,(bottom right) in Thursday s update by the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit ; image from the health unit s live stream Youth COVID-19 vaccination clinics are being set up by the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit. Andrea McLellan, Director of COVID-19 Immunization Strategy, says the schedule should be ready soon for parents to book appointments. “We are in the process, in collaboration with our school boards and some of our other community partners, of planning dedicated youth clinics that only 12 to 17-year-olds will attend, the weeks of June 14th and June 21st, across our district,” she says. ....
By Sunday Ehigiator Dexa Medica, a leading multinational pharmaceutical company in Nigeria, has launched a first of its kind, herbal cough syrup, HerbaKOF, aimed at providing better cough remedies to Nigerians. At the launch of the product, held in Lagos, the company’s Country Manager, Nigeria and West Africa, Dhanang Anggoro, revealed that the herbal syrup was an improvement from every other types of syrups which were banned in the country, due to their addictive tendencies, and abuse. According to him, with the rainy season fast approaching, Nigerians need to have the syrup in their homes to tackle cough which is the common illness suffered by many people during the period. ....
SHARE ON: Dr. Carol Zimbalatti, Public Health Physician (bottom left); Dr. Jim Chirico, Medical Officer of Health (top left); Andrea McLellan, Director of Immunization (bottom right); and Alex McDermid, Communications Officer (top right) during Thursday s media conference. (Photo screenshot via North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit) The local health unit says the District of Parry Sound is seeing a spike in community transmission of COVID-19. In the health unit’s weekly update, Public Health Physician Dr. Carol Zimbalatti said whether this leads to a longer local wave is up to residents. “Yes, we are seeing more community transmission in Parry Sound District than we are elsewhere but it is possible that we can nip that in the bud with the appropriate measures,” Zimbalatti said. ....
Some 14.7 million vaccine doses administered, as roll out of Africa’s COVID campaigns stall By Maxwell Awumah 3 HOURS AGO More than 14.7 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered across the continent, but rollout campaigns have stalled in many countries. As of April 28, only Seychelles, an island nation with a population of almost 123,831 people, has vaccinated about 68 per cent of its population. Morocco followed up with 12.4 per cent administering 8.86 million doses of vaccines to its population with Rwanda and Ghana administering 1.4 per cent and 1.3 per cent of their population with doses of 349,702 and 755,686, respectively, as of April 11, this year. ....
At this point in human history, the inequalities in our healthcare system has never been more glaring. As there is a stark difference between night and day so is the lacuna in the distribution of wealth and health. The developing economies of the world have taken and continue to take loans from the developed economies. The crunching conditions attached to most of these loans are such that the borrowing nations will be in perpetual debt. It is now estimated that China owns more than one-third of Zambia’s debt. The rich nations also owe us the return of our stolen Bronze artifacts but that will be another story. While the rich nations have agreed to token postponements or entire cancellation of some of these debts, they are unequivocal in their decision not to temporarily override their patency laws to give open source for the manufacture of approved vaccines. ....