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Vaccination exercise for refugees living in Adagom community in Cross River State

“Leaving no one behind” – Cross River targets refugees for COVID-19 vaccination

Calabar, 2 July 2021 - Few months since the delivery of the COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility, the global initiative to ensure equitable vaccine distrib

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Inside Angola’s ‘exemplary’ COVID-19 vaccination hubs 

Inside Angola’s ‘exemplary’ COVID-19 vaccination hubs 

The Paz Flor mall is usually packed with shoppers browsing for bargains or sitting down to enjoy a meal, but as Angola’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines ramps up, the vibrant space in the nation’s capital has been converted to serve up life-saving vaccines.
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The Supplies

WHO Donates COVID – 19 supplies to strengthen the health system’s response to the pandemic

 The WHO Country Representative, Dr.

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WHO Rwanda drivers - A look and feel from the field amid the COVID-19 wave

Kigali, 30 June 2021 - Since mid-June, Rwanda has been experiencing a spike in the number of new COVID-19 confirmed cases each day.

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Rife COVID-19 variants fuel Africa’s surging wave

Rife COVID-19 variants fuel Africa’s surging wave

As COVID-19 case numbers in Africa climb faster than all earlier peaks, new and faster spreading variants are fuelling the continent’s surging third wave.  
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A health worker gives an injectable inactivated polio vaccine in Juba

South Sudan launches a nationwide second dose of routine Inactivated Polio Vaccine introduction to protect children against all types of poliovirus

Juba, 1 July 2021 – South Sudan has reached another milestone by launching a second dose of routine Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV2).

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WHO, GIZ and Ministry of Health Officials at the event marking the formal handing over of the donation

WHO-GIZ Cooperation continues to enhance Sierra Leone’s capacity to fight COVID-19

Thursday 1 July 2021, Freetown: As Sierra Leone battles her third wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Sierra Leone with funding from our partners – GIZ and the German Cooperation - have once again supported the Ministry of Health and Sanitation with a donation of essential laboratory supplies that will help the country to respond to the third wave. The supplies include 82,000 sample collection kits; 1,620 automated PCR Kits (GeneXpert); and 10,000 antigen-based rapid diagnostic test kits (Ag-RDTs), altogether valued at $195,284.
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Selamawit administers oral cholera vaccine to a young girl at Yekatit 23 IDP camp in Mekelle

A new nurse finds purpose as a volunteer vaccinator in Tigray

Selamawit Araya is a volunteer nurse serving displaced people in Mekelle. She was trained by WHO and partners as a vaccinator for the oral cholera vaccination campaign that commenced in the region on 10 June 2021.
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