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Didier Merchán great winner of the Giro del Medio Brenta in Italy

July 4, 2021

https://www.revistamundociclistico.com/ ... en-italia/


Didier Merchán won the final podium of the Giro del Medio Brenta in Italy 2021 (Photo © team Colombia Tierra de Atletas-GW2021)

The Colombian cyclist, a member of the Colombia Tierra de Atletas-GW team, Didier Merchán, won this Sunday in the 2021 edition of the Giro del Medio Brenta in Italy, a competition between Villa del Conte and Gallio over a distance of 171 kilometers.

Merchán, who crossed the finish line alone, beat by 45 seconds the Eritrean Henok Mulubrhan (Team Qhubeka) who was second and by 58 seconds the Italian Simone Raccani (Zalf Euromobil Fior) who occupied the third position.

The team led by Luis Alfonso Cely will concentrate this week in San Pellegrino, prior to its next commitment, which will be the Giro al Valle de Aosta between July 16 and 18 .

Final results

1 MERCHAN Didier Colombia Land of Athletes-GW 4:04:02

2 MULUBRHAN Henok Team Qhubeka 0:45

3 RACCANI Simone Zalf Euromobil Fior 0:58

4 MARTINELLI Alessio Team Colpack Ballan 1:05

5 ROMAN Francesco 1:05

6 PETRUCCI Mattia Team Colpack Ballan 1:05

7 PARISINI Nicolò Beltrami TSA - Tre Colli 1:05

8 CASALLAS Yeisson Colombia Land of Athletes-GW 1:05

9 ZAMBANINI Edoardo Zalf Euromobil Fior 1:05

10 GALIMBERTI Lorenzo 1:05

14 PINZON Edgar Colombia Land of Athletes-GW 1:05


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KAHRAMANMARAŞ - International Kahramanmaraş Literature Road Cycling Races completed

Sunday, July 4, 2021

İzzet Mazı

https://www.haberler.com/duzce-yi-sel-v ... 10-haberi/



At the end of the second day stages of the International Kahramanmaraş Literature Road Cycling Races held in Kahramanmaraş, Mongolian Jambaljamts Sainbayar in men and Russian Anastasiia Chursina in women took the first place.

Kahramanmaras ' ta carried Kahramanmaras International Literary Road Bike Races stage at the end of the second day of the Mongol Jambaljamts Sainbay in men, while the women took first place in the Russian Anastasiia Chursina.



The second day stages of the organization, which was held by the Kahramanmaraş Metropolitan Municipality with the support of the Ministry of Youth and Sports and the Turkish Cycling Federation, were completed.45 athletes in women pedaled 97 kilometers, while 130 athletes in men pedaled 156 kilometers.



At the end of the second day stages, Jambaljamts Sainbayar from Trengganu Cycling took the first place in men. Again, Eritrean athlete of the Trengganu Cycling team, Metkel Eyob, came second, and Salcano Sakarya Metropolitan Belediyespor's Ukrainian cyclist Mykhaylo Kononenko came in third.



In women, Anastasiia Chursina came first, Olena Sharga from Ukraine came in second and Olga Shekel from Ukraine came in third.








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Eritrea maintains high immunization coverage despite the COVID-19 pandemic

Source: UNICEF

https://reliefweb.int/report/eritrea/er ... 9-pandemic

20 Jun 2021


All vaccines that arrived by the UNICEF supported air charter on 29 April 2021, are safely stored in the National Vaccine Store in Asmara. © UNICEF Eritrea/2021/Alem

The country sustains one of the highest immunization rates in the region

Eritrea’s Ministry of Health has done a commendable job to ensure high immunization coverages despite the COVID-19 pandemic during most of 2020. UNICEF has been a partner to the government’s immunization efforts since 1991 and this strengthened partnership has resulted in Eritrea achieving and maintaining one of the highest immunization rates in the region.

Although Eritrea, like the rest of the world, was affected by the COVID-19 induced restrictions and lockdowns in 2020, that did not deter the Ministry of Health to pause or delay the routine immunization services for children and women.

Even more laudable was the significant increase in vaccine uptake in 2020 as compared to 2019. The data revealed that 1,495,838 children received vaccination shots in 2020 as compared to 1,310,410 in 2019, which was 185,428 more children immunised – an increase of 14 per cent per cent as compared to the previous year.

This success is attributed to the proactive efforts of the Ministry of Health (MoH) in intensifying community mobilization, which allayed the fears of the service providers and community members, as well as enhancing access to rural communities through outreach services. The MoH in 2020 conducted four rounds of integrated mobile outreach services in the 16 hard to reach districts in four regions of the country.

Good planning and innovative thinking helped spur this achievement

When we detected from routine data the early signs of declining coverage in April 2020, we promptly set out to develop an immunization continuity plan with the Ministry of Health and other partners. The plan factored in uninterrupted delivery of vaccines and other supplies, sub-national level supervision to ensure continuation of immunization services at the fixed immunization sites as well as through outreach services provided by the mobile clinics,

says Geoffrey Acaye, Chief of Child Survival and Development, UNICEF.

It was imperative to build vaccine awareness through various channels for Risk Communication (PSAs and 24/7 Call Centre) towards sensitising communities to increase vaccination demand so that parents would bring their children to be vaccinated. The Health Promotion Division of the MoH disseminated key messages to galvanize community members to continue to use the services

Caution was also undertaken to ensure that health teams and community members were abiding by Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures at all health facilities, out-reach points and the mobile clinic services.

Strategic partnerships to ensure regular supplies and technical support augmented high coverage UNICEF has been working in partnership with the MoH for over three decades to support immunization and health services. This has resulted in some notable progress, including the nation’s ability to achieve more than 95 per cent coverage since 2015. To date, Eritrea’s routine immunization programme currently includes 12 vaccine-preventable diseases.

Since 2014, UNICEF has been providing biannual air charters to deliver vaccines and critical medical supplies into the country, in April and in October. This was maintained in 2020 even when even when airports around the world were shut down. This helped Eritrea avoid any stock-out of vaccines and non- vaccine supplies.

Eritrea has adequate cold-chain equipment (CCE) to safely store and transport the vaccines from the National Vaccine Store in Asmara to the most remote communities of the country. To date, UNICEF, with generous funding from donors like the GAVI, Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and UNICEF’s own funding, has procured and commissioned 496 Cold Chain Equipment (CCE) nationwide. Of these, 348 CCEs are the Solar Direct Driven which are eco-friendly and sustainable for the environment.

All the 295 Health Facilities nationwide which are currently providing immunization services have at least one Solar Direct Driven refrigerator and plans to install 55 new solar driven refrigerators to replace the obsolete ones.

Looking ahead and ensuring no one is left behind

The Ministry of Health seeks to build on these achievement to spur increased investment, systems strengthening and innovative thinking to sustain the gains towards achieving the Sustainable Development Goals related to child health and nutrition.

Beginning in 2021, the Government of the State of Eritrea has begun to co-finance 20 per cent of the traditional vaccines, demonstrating its long-term commitment to self-reliance and sustainability of the programme.

Additionally, the MoH continues to provide Immunization in Practice (IIP) trainings for the front-line workers to sustain coverage and quality of the programme.

The soon to be introduced Inactivated Polio Vaccination Campaign (IPV) into the routine immunization will help sustain the Polio Free status of Eritrea since 2015.

UNICEF would also like to thank donors like Irish Aid and Government of UK (FCDO) for their continued support to maintain Eritrea’s immunization programme.


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EmbassyMedia Interview with Mr. Yacob Ghebretensae, Data Scientist, Author & Health Manager

Students’ summer greening campaign 2021

LOCAL NEWS

https://shabait.com/2021/07/06/students ... eaPrevails



Asmara, 06 July 2021- The Ministry of Education reported that High School Students’ Summer Greening Campaign will be conducted nationwide from 7 July to 15 August.

According to a report from the office of the Ministry, the campaign will be conducted in 39 sub-zones from 100 centers and 24 thousand students including 42% female students as well as about one thousand supervisors will take part.



Mr. Fitwi Woldegergis, head of the Students’ Summer Greening Campaign at the Ministry of Education, said that the program will include planting tree seedlings, construction, and renovation of terraces and water diversion schemes, renovation of roads among others.

Mr. Fitwi went on to say that the objective of the campaign that was launched in 1994 was to ensure the participation of high school students and teachers in redressing the environment, creating a conducive environment of cooperation as well as inculcating the culture of work among the students.

Mr. Fitwi also called on parents, agricultural experts, health practitioners, teachers as well as administrations and stakeholders to underpin participation for the success of the campaign.

He also called on all participants for strict observation of the guidelines issued to control the COVID-19 pandemic.



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