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Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine

All you need to know

Maher’s daughter Laura, 4, dressed up as a doctor at home during her parents’ quarantine following their infection with COVID-19 last year.
UNICEF/Syria/2020
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Zain in collaboration with UNICEF help curb the pandemic by encouraging those eligible to take the vaccine to protect the children and others. "Do it for me, this time..". "Get vaccinated". 

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Vaccines allow us to come together, shoulder to shoulder – in schools, communities, and places of worship. They are the best hope we have of ending the COVID-19 pandemic and getting back to doing the things we enjoy with the people we love.

Getting a COVID-19 vaccine or know someone who is? Join @UNICEF’s #Vaccinated campaign.

Vaccine information for families

Vaccine misinformation management field guide

Guidance for addressing a global infodemic and fostering demand for immunization

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How to talk to your children about COVID-19 vaccines

Help your child understand how vaccines work

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Advice for before, during and after a COVID-19 vaccination

Tips for navigating the vaccination process

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Navigating pregnancy during the COVID-19 pandemic

How to protect yourself and your baby

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Science in 5

WHO experts explain the science related to COVID-19
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Stories from the region

My experience with COVID-19

Fighting infection, coping with quarantine and why vaccines matter

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Delivering life-saving vaccines during the COVID-19 pandemic

Health workers are stopping at nothing to ensure immunizations for every child.

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Vaccinated and Proud

Egypt’s largest COVID-19 vaccination center receives thousands daily

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COVID-19 Vaccinated Campaign

Across Lebanon, health workers, grandparents, parents and other frontline workers are receiving the COVID-19 vaccine

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On the frontlines: Delivering vaccines to reach every community

Mali: A vaccination team travels by donkey cart to reach a remote village in the Mopti region, where families wait for their children to be vaccinated.

Every year UNICEF reaches almost half of the world’s children with life-saving vaccines. Now with COVID-19, UNICEF and partners are leading the largest vaccines procurement and supply operation in history.

UNICEF has all hands on deck to have 2 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses available for delivery by the end of 2021.

Pfizer vaccines delivery in Egypt: The essential cold chain

How an incredible race against time made possible the delivery of Pfizer vaccines

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DP World, UNICEF partner to support COVID-19 vaccination

The agreement will support the provision of COVID-19 vaccines and related supplies for low- and lower-middle-income countries

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