By Simon Deng The World Health Organization has urged South Sudan to ramp up COVID-19 vaccination and mitigate the spread...
By Simon Deng The COVID-19 isolation centre in Bor state hospital in South Sudan’s Jonglei has closed down over financial...
By Simon Deng South Sudan could suffer a deadly second wave of COVID-19 infections like it’s neighbor Uganda and Kenya due to low vaccine uptake, said an experts with the World Health Organization. Guyo Gurasha, WHO Emergency Preparedness Officer for the World Health Organization warned that the deadly new variants...
Juba, 14 May 2021 An official who wish to remain anonymous has told Juba Eco on Friday that COVID-19 vaccination in...
At least 1.4 million people have been confirmed fully vaccinated against COVID-19 since the start of vaccination last year. Sacha...
By Tapeng Michael Ohure South Sudan’s national Ministry of Health says it will begin to administer the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) single shot COVID 19 vaccine from the 8th of October this week. “The ministry of health and partners have been planning for its deployment, we now have a tentative...
Photo shows health officials briefing journalists at the Public Health Emergency Operation Center in Juba on Sunday. By Simon Deng...
By Tapeng Michael Ohure South Sudan is expected to receive 168,000 doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccines on Tuesday, WHO...
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...
South Sudan’s government said early this week that it plans to commence inoculation of teachers across the country as schools...
Photo shows John Rumunu, Director General for Preventive Health Services in MOH. By Simon Deng A senior health official in the Ministry of...
Photo shows Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, the vice president for services cluster By Simon Deng South Sudan’s national taskforce on COVID-19 has issued a public order effecting a three-week partial lockdown. The vice president for services cluster, Hussein Abdelbagi Akol, who also doubles as the chairman for the National taskforce on...








