Social distancing has already delayed immunisation campaigns in 24 countries. FMTNews Measles Covid19
LONDON: More than 117 million children could miss out on immunisation against measles as the Covid-19 pandemic forces social distancing and piles pressure on health services, United Nations health agencies warned on Tuesday.
“If the difficult choice to pause vaccination is made due to the spread of Covid-19, we urge leaders to intensify efforts to track unvaccinated children, so that the most vulnerable populations can be provided with measles vaccines as soon as it becomes possible to do so,” the group said in a statement.
The respiratory disease Covid-19 has killed more than 113,000 people and left countries around the world in virtual lockdown as they try to halt the spread of the novel coronavirus that causes it.The World Health Organization said in December that measles had infected nearly 10 million people in 2018 and killed 140,000, mostly children, in what it described as “an outrage”.
With the fight against Covid-19 in most countries focused on keeping health workers safe from infection and imposing strict social distancing measures, the WHO has recommended that governments temporarily pause preventive immunisation campaigns, such as those against measles, where there is no active outbreak of a vaccine-preventable disease.
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