Covid-19 : Intensify Vaccination Despite Drop In Infections
- Par Emmanuel
- 11 juin 2021 13:13
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Government has planned a series of actions to accelerate vaccination against the pandemic.
In the coming days, government will start to be implemented a series of actions intended to lead to the massive vaccination of the population against the Covid-19 pandemic.
Prime Minister, Head of Government, Joseph Dion Ngute on June 10, 2021 while chairing the meeting of the Inter-ministerial Committee in charge of evaluating and monitoring the implementation of Government’s response strategy against the Covid-19 pandemic in Cameroon, prescribed vigilance. He expressed delight at the drop in the contamination rate but insisted that vaccination remains the best solution to tackle the pandemic. The Prime Minister regretted that despite efforts government has made to acquire stocks of the doses of vaccines, many people remain reluctant to get vaccinated.
Statistics from the Ministry of Public Health disclose a vaccination rate of 0.6 per cent in the national territorial against the targeted 20 per cent. It was with the objective to turn the tides of the slow pace of the vaccination rate that on the high instructions of the President of the Republic, Paul Biya, the Prime Minister chaired a restricted inter-ministerial concertation meeting on June 9, 2021 to determine the measures that can be put in place to intensify the vaccination against Covid-19 pandemic. Cameroon, it was revealed runs a serious risk if the vaccination coverage is not improved within two months. The measures were handed down to members of the inter-ministerial committee for implementation.
Some of the actions proposed to be undertaken include the updating of the Head of State’s awareness creation message in order to insert the vaccination component, organisation within the shortest time possible by the Ministry of Communication- Minister of Public Health of a joint press conference on the advantages of the vaccine. A proximity communication has to be carried out in rural and urban areas on the vaccination, sector strategies put in pl...
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