The Bangladesh government has purchased 220,000,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine and for vaccine administration. So far Bangladesh administered around 220,000,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine within the shortest time in the world. Many more of the population will receive...
More than 21 million people have received at least one dose of vaccine in Ethiopia
One year ago, Ethiopia received its first COVID-19 vaccine doses from the COVAX with a total of 2.2 million doses and lunched the COVID 19 vaccination on 13 March 2021. To date, more than 21.5 million people received at least one dose and more than 20.5 people have...
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Viet Nam: Covid patients struggle to get documents to make social insurance claim
In Vietnam social security claims for COVID 19 treatment require sick leave certificates that are delayed due to multiple and cumbersome procedures. The Law on Social Insurance provides that an employee who falls ill and must temporarily leave work is entitled to a...
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Oman government meets COVID 19 healthcare challenge by procuring private sector services
Oman’s public health sector partnered with private healthcare institutions that helped in lessening the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the country. Private sector participation increased the country’s hospitalization capacity, handled the overflow of patients from...
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7,5 million USD is injected to health system in Russia to pay for providers’ virtual consultations during the pandemic
More than half a billion rubles will be directed to the remuneration of doctors who consult citizens remotely. The government continues to implement an updated plan of measures to counter the spread of coronavirus. 600 million rubles have been allocated from the...
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EU-funded National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Latvia to allocate 10% of the grant to health
According to a Briefing by the European Parliamentary Research Service, EU-funded National Recovery and Resilience Plan of Latvia is to allocate 10% of the grant to health. The briefing reports that Latvia's National Recovery and Resilience Plan (NRRP) sets...
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$663mln spent to combat COVID-19 pandemic in Bahrain
Bahrain spent an estimated BD250 million on healthcare measures related to the coronavirus (Covid-19) in the last two years. It includes the amount for treatment, testing, facemasks, gloves and vaccines among others. The country is working towards achieving the...
Tchad: sensibilisation et mobilisation des populations en faveur de la vaccination contre la Covid19
Le ministère de la santé publique et de la solidarité nationale a lancé le samedi 12.02.2022, les activités de sensibilisation, de mobilisation et d’information en faveur de la vaccination contre la pandémie de covid-19 partenariat avec l’ONG Albarka qui a obtenu, à...
Advancing universal health coverage in the COVID-19 era: an assessment of public health services technical efficiency and applied cost allocation in Cambodia
"This study assesses Cambodia’s public health services technical efficiency, unit costs, and utilization rates to quantify the extent to which current health financing can accommodate the expansion of social health protection coverage."
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Accessible and affordable COVID-19 self-test kits in Thailand
To ensure affordable and accessibility of the COVID-19 testing, the National Health Security Office (NHSO) board has decided to introduce an option by which health units can purchase the self-test kits and claim the cost from the NHSO. They can request 55 baht per...
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The Philippines 2022 national budget secured free COVID-19 testing
The Philippines has allocated P17.85 billion under the 2022 national budget for Covid-19 testing, aiming to ensure affordability and accessibility to the tests among its population. The funds will be allocated to the state laboratories so that more free tests...
Viet Nam’s COVID-19 fight costs over US$$3.2 billion
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South Africa donates two million J&J COVID-19 jabs to other African countries
The government of South Africa pledged to donate over two million doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines worth USD 19.2 million to other African countries in December, 2021. The pledge proceeded the signing of an agreement with the African Vaccination...
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COVID-19: African Union (AU) seals deal with Moderna for 110 million vaccines
In October, 2021 Moderna announced a new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to make up to 110 million doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine available to the AU. The company in a statement said it was preparing to deliver the first 15 million doses in the fourth quarter...
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Liberia receives emergency aid to support COVID-19 response and cold chain system strengthening
The government of Liberia received about 2.5 million USD to strengthen the delivery of routine health services in health facilities and communities during COVID-19 and improving cold chain management from the Japanese government. The project, strengthening routine...