Tag: Vaccination

A new polio vaccine is set to receive emergency authorisation to try to halt outbreaks of the crippling disease caused by mutated virus from existing immunisation drops. The rapid rise of so-called vaccine-derived polio outbreaks has become an alarming problem for the decades-long campaign to eradicate the disease. With ...

New Delhi: The Centre has asked states to constitute committees for coordination and overseeing COVID-19 vaccination drive while ensuring minimal disruptions in other routine healthcare services, and stressed early tracking of social media to dispel rumours which could impact the community acceptance of coronavirus inoculation Stating that COVID-19 vaccine introduction ...

ABU DHABI — As part of its recognition of World Polio Day, today the Emirates Polio Campaign, EPC, announced it administered over 28 million vaccine doses in Pakistan between July and September 2020, reaching over 16 million children.The announcement comes on the heels of the EPC’s recent announcement ...

As part of the initiative of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces to eradicate polio in the world .. The Emirati Project to Help Pakistan announced the success of the UAE's polio vaccination campaign ...

When will the pandemic end? All these months in, with over 37 million COVID-19 cases and more than 1 million deaths globally, you may be wondering, with increasing exasperation, how long this will continue.Since the beginning of the pandemic, epidemiologists and public health specialists have been using mathematical ...

Over the past 30 years, health services have played a large role in saving millions of lives. India’s child mortality rate has declined substantially between 1990 and 2019 but the country, along with Nigeria, still accounted for almost a third of all under-five deaths last year, according to a ...

A three-decade-long worldwide campaign to stamp out poliovirus has come tantalisingly close to ending a disease which caused 350,000 cases per year in the late 1980s. Yet despite the recent victory in Africa, cases are again rising in its last two haunts – Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan saw 12 ...