The United Nations Children’s Fund, (UNICEF) says it will provided close to 900,000 face-masks to improve hygiene as schools reopen...
South Sudan’s government said early this week that it plans to commence inoculation of teachers across the country as schools...
Juba, 14 May 2021 An official who wish to remain anonymous has told Juba Eco on Friday that COVID-19 vaccination in Juba is going on at a very slow speed, at the rate of [approximately] 700 people per day. So far [around] 17,000 vaccines have been injected. [Around] 117,000 vaccines are...
By Awan Achiek South Sudan’s government says it is rolling out vaccination against COVID-19 across the country on Monday. The...
By Simon Deng The South Sudanese Ministry of Health has scaled down the number of COVID-19 frontline health workers due...
By Simon Deng South Sudan’s government says it is returning 72,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to the COVAX facility. Mayen Machut Achiek, Undersecretary in the Ministry of Health said South Sudan’s Health Ministry is facing a challenge of reaching all target groups with the vaccines due to lack of funds...
By Simon Deng More than 16,000 people in South Sudan have been vaccinated against COVID-19, despite logistical challenges amid shortage of funds....
By Awan Achiek COVID-19 frontline health workers have called off their strikeover unpaid incentives citing humanitarian grounds. “The COVID-19 frontline healthcare workers sat...
By Manyuon Mayen Manyuon, Juba The Japanese government has called for continuous solidarity and commitments in a fight against the coronavirus pandemic across the globe. Suga Yoshihide, the Japanese Prime Minister made a remark during the COVAX AMC virtual Summitheld on June 2 that brought about 40 World leaders aboard. The Summit co-hosted by the Government of Japan led by the Prime Minister and Gavi,represented by Mr. José Manuel Barroso, Gavi...
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By Simon Deng South Sudan could suffer a deadly second wave of COVID-19 infections like it’s neighbor Uganda and Kenya...
By Simon Deng South Sudan’s Health Ministry is set to receive its second batch of AstraZeneca, the COVID-19 vaccine from Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization through the COVAX facility in the first week of August, the health authorities have confirmed. John Rumunu, the Director General for Preventive Health Services...