Government in November declared December 2021 as a vaccination Month to ensure the implementation of a mandatory vaccination policy for students, commercial drivers, government workers
He said herbal medicine practice needed increased funding to aid research into innovations for the purposes of tackling emerging diseases and other challenges in health service delivery.
This was after recording 34 cases of omicron variant in sequenced samples that were taken from 120 returning travelers collected between November 21 and November 25, 2021.