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ICRC Calls For Nutshell Support To Prevent Healthcare Collapse in Afghanistan

February 21, 2022 by Fourth Estate Wire

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on Monday expressed its extreme concern as many Afghans have no access to healthcare across Afghanistan because thousands of health facilities have...

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Turkmenistan Has Had Zero Cases of COVID-19 Claim Officials

December 29, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

The President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov claimed of not a single case of COVID-19 being detected in the country since the outbreak of the pandemic, but still cautioned people of...

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Palestine Confirms Two More Omicron Variant, In Total Six Cases

December 29, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

Palestine health officials said Tuesday that with two more Omicron variants of COVID-19, after detecting four earlier. Kamal Shakhra, a spokesman for the Health Ministry said the two new cases...

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Singapore Donates S$7.9m Medical Supplies to ASEAN Reserve

December 29, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong announced at the 38th Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit on Oct. 26 that Singapore will contribute S$7.9 million ($5.9 million) worth of medical supplies to...

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Nepal Reports Its First Two Cases of Omicron Variant

December 6, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

The government of Nepal on Monday announced its first two cases of COVID-19 Omicron variant. According to the country’s Ministry of Health and Population, a Nepali national and a...

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WHO Sending COVID-19 Medical Supplies to North Korea

October 7, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

The World Health Organization (WHO) has started shipping much-needed COVID-19 medical supplies into North Korea, a country that has not declared any COVID-19 infections. Edwin Salvador, WHO’s representative to North...

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WHO Condemns DRC Sex Crimes Committed by Aid Workers

September 29, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

An independent commission said that 83 aid workers, along with some World Health Organization (WHO) staff, were involved in sexual exploitation cases during an Ebola breakout in the Democratic Republic...

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US Ships COVID-19 Vaccines to Kenya and Ghana

September 3, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

The White House said that the United States would start to ship more than two million Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine doses to Kenya and Ghana on Thursday. It said that the...

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WHO Says It Only has Medical Supplies in Afghanistan for a Week

August 24, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

A senior regional World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Tuesday, August 24, that the organization only has enough supplies in Afghanistan to last for a week after medical equipment...

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Australia to Use Pfizer COVAX Stockpile Meant for Poorer Nations

August 17, 2021 by Fourth Estate Wire

Australia has taken 500,000 Pfizer vaccine doses from a scheme to ensure that poorer countries have fair and equal access to vaccines, even though vaccines are still in short supply...

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