All posts tagged "vaccination strategy"

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  Australia’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout flawed, audit finds

  The rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine by Australia’s health department was “partly effective” but planning was slow and incomplete in the early stages, delivery to priority groups was flawed and

  • Posted August 24, 2022
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  Were governments right to introduce COVID-19 vaccine mandates?  

  Countries including the US and Canada have mandated COVID-19 vaccines for government workers as part of plans to thwart coronavirus. In this feature, Mia Hunt assesses whether such policies have

  • Posted April 12, 2022
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  Mass vaccination: COVID-19 protection for the many, not the few

  Global rollout of COVID-19 vaccinations has raised questions over supply, inequality and logistics. Catherine Early heard panellists at a Global Government Forum webinar discuss how they have overcome the many

  • Posted November 18, 2021
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  Nigeria to ban unvaccinated civil servants from their offices

  Civil servants in Nigeria will not be allowed into their offices unless they can prove they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19 or show a negative test for the disease, the country’s

  • Posted October 15, 2021
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  Built for all: A global framework for building inclusive economies

  The pandemic presents the opportunity to build a better future that supports inclusive growth, sustained prosperity, equal participation, and responsible stewardship. It’s been over eighteen months since people around the

  • Posted September 9, 2021
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  Hong Kong officials must receive vaccine or fund fortnightly tests

  The Hong Kong government has extended its vaccinations policy to back office workers, and now requires every government employee to get vaccinated or undertake fortnightly PCR tests. From 1 September,

  • Posted August 20, 2021
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  Getting everyone into the COVID-19 vaccination queue

  Countries have made huge efforts to access and distribute vaccines – but to achieve ‘herd immunity’, they need to get them into the arms of the majority of their adult

  • Posted July 14, 2021
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  Infection barriers: the emerging ecosystem of COVID passports

  As ever more governments introduce COVID passports, experts from the private sector and three national civil services explored the issues at a GGF webinar – debating both their potential to

  • Posted June 21, 2021
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  Experts warn of security and privacy challenges around vaccine passports

  Implementing COVID-19 vaccine certificates will present policymakers with a range of challenges around secure data-sharing with the private sector and protecting citizens’ privacy, experts told a parliamentary committee in the

  • Posted March 23, 2021
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  Treat pandemic preparedness as a national security issue, says former UK PM Tony Blair

  Governments must treat future pandemic preparedness as a “national security” issue, developing shared systems for identifying mutations and new viruses, former UK prime minister Tony Blair said last Friday. While

  • Posted March 1, 2021
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