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GENEVA — For the last two years, the COVID-19 pandemic has focused global attention on the impact of vaccines in fighting the virus. During World Immunization Week, the World Health Organization (WHO) has been raising awareness of the crucial role immunization has played in reducing or eliminating a host ...

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ISLAMABAD —  The United States announced Friday an additional 9.6 million doses of Pfizer coronavirus vaccine are being shipped to Pakistan through the global vaccine-sharing COVAX initiative. The shipment brings to more than 25 million the total number of COVID-19 vaccine doses donated by Washington to the Pakistani people, ...

FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus (COVID-2019), in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo - RC2ZAG9HK7FK Geneva Sept 22: Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ...

Special: Battle Against Novel Coronavirus The first batch of nearly 980,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines provided by Chinese drugmaker China National Biotech Group through COVAX departed for Pakistan in the early hours of Monday, the company said. These doses were packaged on the evening of Friday at a Beijing ...

#Pakistan News Coronavirus pandemic has killed over 4.1 million people and infected over 193.2 million globally. Here are the coronavirus-related developments for July 23: FILE PHOTO: A nurse prepares to administer the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine under the COVAX scheme against the Covid-19 at the Eka Kotebe General Hospital in Addis ...

The White House fact sheet on Monday did not provide exact figures for how many doses would be sent to each country. (Representational image:)The US has announced its plan to allocate 5.5 crore doses of the COVID-19 vaccines to the rest of the world as the second tranche, including ...

The United States on Monday announced its plans to allocate 55 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the rest of the world, including 16 million to Asian nations such as India and Bangladesh. With the previous allocation of 25 million, the Biden-Harris Administration has so far announced to distribute ...

We have been here before: Lessons learned in the fight against polio are informing the global COVID-19 response.  Health workers and volunteers participate in a polio immunization campaign in Kaduna, Nigeria in 2019. © Rotary International By Meghan Doetschman, Global Cause Partnerships, UNICEF USA and Stephanie Jacquier, Global Philanthropy, ...

GENEVA — With the coronavirus still raging in many parts of the world, the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, warned on Tuesday of vaccine shortages, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, and urged “immediate and stronger support” for the global COVAX initiative for equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines, “including for refugees ...