Indonesia plans to provide the third doses of Covid-19 vaccine to 1.47 million health care workers throughout the nation due to concerning of health workers having a high risk of contracting coronavirus. For more information, please click. Source:...
Bhutan’s Vaccination Program Scales New Heights
Bhutan has reach 90 percent of vaccination of adults population. Although Bhutan's small population would help for achieving the fast vaccination coverage, the country also benefited from strong and effective messaging from top officials and an established...

Bangladesh borrows $940M for COVID-19
Bangladesh borrows $940 M from external loan to finance vaccine purchase, aiming to enhance COVID-19 vaccine coverage. This loan will be used for purchasing 44.7M coronavirus vaccine doses which could vaccinate more than 20 million people. The...

Singapore provides support package to help workers and business
Due to heightened alert for COVID-19, Singapore government implements tightened safe management measures and at the same time, the government will offer a support package to reduce the impact on workers and businesses. This support will...

Philippines provides special risk allowance for public and private health workers
Philippines has released the Special Allotment Release Order and the Notice of Cash Allocation amounting to P9.02-billion to the Department of Health to cover the payment of the Special Risk Allowances (SRA) of public and private health workers. The...

Maximizing convenience in payment of medical expenses covered by health insurance amid Covid-19
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Health ministry given extra funding for Covid-19 fight
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SENEGAL: Financial agreement with the USA and Europe for vaccine production
Senegal, several European institutions and countries, and the United States in particular, have announced the signing in Dakar of an agreement to finance the installation in this West African country of a production plant for vaccines against Covid-19 and other...

Mali:Malian parliament earmarks FCFA 32 billion for Covid-19
These funds, approved by the CNT, will supplement the budget deficits earmarked for the fight against Covid in Mali. According to Minister of Health 6.647 billion CFA francs have been injected by Mali's development partners in the fight against the...

CONGO: 6.5 billion FCFA for the Covid19 response
This project is part of the implementation of free healthcare for pregnant women and children, and fee waivers for the poorest households. The two parliamentary chambers of the Republic of Congo adopted on July 27 in Brazzaville, the bill authorizing ratification of...
News Businesses to receive support in accessing global vaccine supply: PM
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Australia approves COVID-19 vaccine for children aged 12 to 15
Australia's drug regulator has approved Pfizer-BioNTech's COVID-19 vaccine for use with children aged 12 to 15. The Therapeutic Goods Administration has thoroughly assessed the domestic and international evidence before extending its approval for the...
Nepal rolls out COVID-19 vaccination for people living with disabilities
Nepal has started to vaccinate people with disabilities across the country against the coronavirus with the Johnson & Johnson single-shot jab. All differently-abled individuals with either their citizenship card or disability ID card are eligible for the J&J...
Japan considers a second COVID-19 payment to vulnerable households
The Japan government is considering to provide monthly payments for needy households to help ease the financial strain due to COVID-19 pandemic. Considering monthly payments are ¥60,000 for single-member households, ¥80,000 for two-person...

Sudan to benefit from a US100 million grant to boost COVID-19 Response
The Government of Sudan signed a grant agreement of US$100 million to boost the country’s COVID-19 response and expand vaccination coverage in the country. This is the first grant from the International Development Association (IDA) following the arrears...
