{"id":1036,"date":"2021-08-22T13:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-22T13:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-probing-low-covid-jab-uptake-by-women"},"modified":"2021-08-22T13:11:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-22T13:11:00","slug":"liberia-probing-low-covid-jab-uptake-by-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-probing-low-covid-jab-uptake-by-women","title":{"rendered":"Liberia Probing Low Covid Jab Uptake By Women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\">Liberia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Health authorities in Liberia have expressed concern over the low uptake of Covid-19 vaccines among women. Liberia&#8217;s head of immunization, Adolphus Clarke, told the BBC that they would investigate the reasons for the gender disparity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo date we realise that of the 16,821 persons that have been vaccinated with the Johnson &amp; Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, 11,098 are male and 5,723 are female,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said they noticed the same difference in those vaccinated by the AstraZeneca vaccines. On Thursday, Liberia Health Minister Wilhelmina Jallah announced she was seeing some success in the fight against Covid. She told a news conference that treatment centres only had &#8220;a few patients&#8221; who were set to be discharged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. Health authorities in Liberia have expressed concern over the low uptake of Covid-19 vaccines among women. Liberia&#8217;s head of immunization, Adolphus Clarke, told the BBC that they would investigate the reasons for the gender disparity. \u201cTo date we realise that of the 16,821 persons that have been vaccinated with the Johnson &amp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,12,16],"tags":[233,237,234,461,258],"class_list":["post-1036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-liberia","tag-liberia","tag-low-covid-jab","tag-women"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Liberia Probing Low Covid Jab Uptake By Women - Liberia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/liberia\/all-news\/liberia-probing-low-covid-jab-uptake-by-women\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Liberia Probing Low Covid Jab Uptake By Women\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Liberia. 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