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Vallabh also alleged that 'the PM gave the data which is semi-baked, as half-truth is very dangerous' New Delhi: The Congress on Friday hit out at Prime Minister Narendra Modi accusing him of misleading the country on vaccinations when only 21 per cent of the country's population was fully ...

UN agencies are gearing up to vaccinate all of Afghanistan’s children under 5 against polio for the first time since 2018, after the Taliban agreed to the campaign, the World Health Organization says.For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app.For the past three ...

Dr Hamid Jafari, the director of polio eradication for the World Health Organization in the region said the Taliban had always been committed to polio eradication. “I think we were in a particular situation of conflict and their security considerations in which they were concerned about the movement of ...

Scroll table to see more data *Deaths per 100,000 people Filter: The world Africa North America Latin America & Caribbean Asia Europe Middle East Oceania Country Deaths Death rate* Total Cases US 697,736 213.3 43,479,167 Brazil 597,948 285.5 21,468,121 India 448,997 33.2 33,834,702 Mexico 278,806 220.9 3,681,925 Russia 206,179 ...

Japan will end its state of emergency and quasi-state of emergency in areas where they exist by the end of the week as COVID-19 infections fall nationwide, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga said on Tuesday.  His announcement came after officials in charge of the country's pandemic response got backing from medical ...

Here are the top updates from Saturday:The Centre asked 11 states and Union Territories to immediately increase the rate of administering the first shot of the Covid-19 vaccine among beneficiaries over 18, and focus on vaccinating the above 60 age group. The states are Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Jammu and ...

Before the pandemic, Mamik Nariati’s five grandchildren were given free immunisations for diseases like polio, mumps and Hepatitis B at their school in the city of Surabaya in East Java. “But since the online school started last year, there is no more immunisation programme,” she told Al Jazeera. Sarigita ...

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Sunday questioned the pace of COVID-19 vaccination, and said had the country”s “Mann ki Baat” been understood, such would not have been the state.His remarks came just ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi”s “Mann ki Baat” address to the people of the ...

The UN warned of a "perfect storm" on Thursday as a raging pandemic continues to severely disrupt access to basic vaccines for millions of children. Last year, some 23 million children missed out on routine inoculations for infections such as diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, as health care was hit worldwide by the coronavirus pandemic. The figure is an increase of 3.7 ...

ISLAMABAD — In 2020, efforts to eradicate polio were affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, when almost 40 million children in Pakistan did not receive polio vaccinations between April and June, when all polio campaigns were suspended, according to the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Pakistan 2020 annual ...