“Africa is facing a fast-surging third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, with cases spreading more rapidly and projected to soon overtake the peak of the second wave the continent witnessed at the start of 2021,” according to the World Health Organization’s
The first doses of the?AstraZeneca?vaccine?arrived?in Ivory Coast in late February.??By March?1, the country started vaccinating people, making it the first in the world to do so through the COVAX initiative, a program?co-led?by?the World Health Organi…
UNFPA Country Representative Laos Ms. Mariam A. Khan paid a courtesy visit to Thoummaly Vongphachanh to congratulate her on her recent appointment as the Chair of the Cultural and Social Affairs Committee of the National Assembly (NA), and discuss furt…
Australia, Germany, and Switzerland on Jun 24 committed nearly USD13 million in funding to the Mekong River Commission (MRC) to assist Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand, and Viet Nam to respond to pressing challenges while safeguarding the ecological functio…
Over 1.34 million people have been vaccinated against Covid-19 with China-made Sinopharm sharing 90% of Covid-19 vaccines vaccinated. The vaccinated include 853,782 people given a first dose and 494,477 people receiving a second dose.The Chinese govern…
The National Taskforce Committee for Covid-19 Prevention and Control has recorded 14 new cases of Covid-19 infections across the country over the past 24 hours. All of them were imported cases including eight in Champassak, and three each in Vientiane
