Elderly COVID-19 patients with no immediate caregivers stranded in elders homes. Mobile vaccination services not reaching the most vulnerable and elderly. Those who are barely able to walk or see or even talk asked to come to vaccine centers. Who will take them? How will they be taken? Where are the needed resources? What is […]
Myanmar News The Shan State Progress Party/Shan State Army (SSPP/SSA) has started vaccination efforts in its territory by giving jabs to around 1,000 civilians around the armed group’s headquarters in Wanhai, Shan State, a spokesperson said on Thursday. Maj Sai Phone Harn said that the SSPP plans to distribute oxygen concentrators and vaccinate as many […]
If the current vaccination drive is continued in the same pace without any major interruption, the country could be fully reopened in September this year, the government anticipates. Though there were some issues in the vaccination programme at the beginning, it appears that it is back on track at present. During the second week of […]
1.4 millions Astra Zeneca vaccine doses will be recieved by 3rd week of July, saying Genaral Shavendra Silva the commandar of Sri Lanka Army. As a result of it giving Pfizer dose instead of Astra Zeneca will stop from today he says. Until yesterday 07 of July, Sri Lanka Army and officials of health sector […]
by Professor Jayantha Lal Ratnasekera. Vice-Chancellor, Uva Wellassa University After the completion of the World War II in 1945, the world was divided into two camps; the socialist camp led by the Soviet Union and the capitalist camp led by the US. Until the collapse of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) in 1991, there […]
Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday announced further ease in Covid-related restrictions in the city starting from 5 am on Monday. The CM announced the resumption of all economic activities except some that will remain prohibited and some that will continue in a restricted manner. In a press briefing, CM Arvind Kejriwal said the […]
The mayor of Moscow has announced a “non-working” week in the Russian capital, with non-essential workers told to stay home as coronavirus cases hit a six-month high. Sergei Sobyanin’s decision on Saturday marked a change of tone for officials in Russia, where President Vladimir Putin has repeatedly insisted that the country has handled the pandemic […]
A team including Orthopedic Surgeon at the Kandy National Hospital Sunanda Udagedara has successfully operated on a 60 – year – an old man suffering from spinal cord injury after falling from a tree. The operation, which lasted about three hours, involved a team of six people, including two specialists. A 60-year-old man has been […]
Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) said on Tuesday it will begin testing its Covid-19 vaccine in a larger group of children under age 12 after selecting a lower dose of the shot in an earlier stage of the trial. The study will enroll up to 4,500 children at more than 90 clinical sites in the United States, […]
Coronavirus variants are to be known by letters of the Greek alphabet to avoid misreporting and stigmatising nations where they were first detected, the World Health Organization (WHO) has announced. The new system applies to variants of concern – the most troubling of which four are in circulation – and the second-level variants of interest […]
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