The pandemic caused the worst reduction in childhood vaccinations in 30 years, putting ~25 million children at risk of contracting a dangerous but preventable disease, the World Health Organization and Unicef said. “This is a red alert for child health.'
The coronavirus pandemic has caused the biggest backslide in childhood vaccinations in about 30 years, putting some 25 million children at risk of contracting a dangerous but preventable disease, the World Health Organization and Unicef said Friday.
The decline was caused by a set of factors, including the growing number of children now living in conflict zones, but it was exacerbated by misinformation and COVID-related issues such as supply-chain snags and resource diversion to response efforts. As always, people in low-income countries have been hit the hardest and are also struggling with malnutrition. “The convergence of a hunger crisis with a growing immunization gap threatens to create the conditions for a child survival crisis,” the agencies warned.
Case numbers are being propelled higher by the BA.5 omicron subvariant, which is the most transmissible form of SARS-CoV-2 to emerge so far, as MarketWatch’s Jaimy Lee wrote Friday. Coronavirus Update: MarketWatch’s daily roundup has been curating and reporting all the latest developments every weekday since the coronavirus pandemic began• Shanghai is starting to lock down some areas again including housing compounds as officials take no chances on stabilizing COVID numbers, Bloomberg News reported.
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