COVID-19 has resulted in widespread disruption to people’s lives. Particularly, it has disrupted children’s learning due to the closing of schools.Realizing the need and urgency to ‘keep girls in the picture’, UNDP Lao PDR and UNESCO, in partnership wi…
The current COVID-19 crisis has made it a real challenge for everyone to know how others are feeling, because our faces are mostly covered by masks.Masks make it difficult to understand what people are saying, even for people with no
One of the scientists behind the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine is warning that the next pandemic may be more contagious and more lethal unless more money is devoted to research and preparations to fight emerging viral threats.In excerpts released…
The World Health Organization reports a significant rise in malaria cases and deaths in 2020 due to COVID-19 disruptions in malaria services.Over the past two decades, global malaria death rates have been cut in half, saving the lives of 10.6
Some 889 new Covid-19 cases and three new deaths have been reported nationwide over the past 24 hours, according to the National Taskforce for Covid-19 Prevention and Control.Director General of the Department of Communicable Diseases Control, Ministry…
As of Dec 4, Covid-19 vaccination has reached 6.7 million people with 3.23 million, almost 50% of population, fully vaccinated and 4.05 million administered with first dose, shows data of the Centre of Information and Education for Health, Ministry of
