2 hours agoMillions of children at risk because of the vaccine rest
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(5 years ago)Millions of children whose immunization was interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in Africa, are at risk for diseases such as smallpox, polio, yellow fever, and difty, United Nations health agencies warned today. Free jobs and inoculation disruptions have led to outbreaks of smallpox in [...]
Free jobs and inoculation cuts have led to outbreaks of smallpox in Pakistan and Yemen, and it is possible that they lead to new epidemics, Reuters reports.
Compared to 2020, progress has been made in providing vaccines that have been cut off because of pandemic, but more than a third of the 135 countries under the control of the World Health Organization (OBSH) still await difficulties.
“Even before pandemic, there were disturbing indicators that we would start losing the race against preventable childhood diseases, but 20 million children are already late in receiving important vaccines,” said U executive director NICEF Henrietta Faure in a joint statement with O BSH and the Alliance for GAVI vaccines.
She said the pandemic had made the poor “is even worse”.
O BSH has determined that at least 60 massive immunizations in 50 countries are currently halted, which puts 228 million mainly children at risk of contracting disease that can be prevented. More than half of the affected countries are in Africa.
