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The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency has continued with the sensitization of Nigerians on the need to accept the COVID-19 vaccination. The latest in the series is the sensitisation of Muslim Scholars and Imams at a meeting…

The World Bank has announced financing for Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Nepal to vaccinate their populations against COVID-19. Afghanistan will receive $113m – including $60m from the International Development Association (IDA), part of…

Authorities in the South Korean capital of Seoul will scrap a controversial order for all foreign workers to be tested for coronavirus, they said on Friday, after an outcry sparked complaints by embassies and a human rights probe. The…

There is no reason for France to reject the AstraZeneca/Oxford University COVID-19 vaccine, government spokesman Gabriel Attal has said on Friday. France is due to resume use of the vaccine on Friday, a day after the European Union’s…

There are a number of lingering issues in the Federal Capital Territory Administration health sector, which has given birth to a silent but growing uneasiness among health workers in the territory, Chairman Association of Resident Doctors…

The implementation of the Basic Health Care Provision Fund (BHCPF) has begun in earnest in Jigawa State. At the ceremony to mark the flag off of enrollment of beneficiaries, the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme…

Governor Muhammadu Inuwa Yahaya of Gombe State has taken the first dose of the Covid-19 Vaccine in Gombe. He called on leaders in the state to come out and take their own shot to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of the vaccine to the…

Greece on Wednesday has urged doctors to volunteer their services to the state health system as it struggles to rein in fast-spreading COVID-19 infections. “We are at the most critical juncture of the pandemic,” Health Minister Vassilis…

Stakeholders in the health sector have called for more funding in order for  Nigeria to achieve Universal Health Coverage by 2030. This was the consensus at an event themed “Universal Health Coverage by 2030: Driving the Agenda with…

Foreigners and some returning citizens will be prevented from entering the Philippines under new measures announced by the country’s coronavirus task force as new variants help raise a renewed surge in COVID-19 cases in the Southeast Asian…