ReutersMore than 100 million children are set to miss out on their measles vaccines this year due to lockdown designed to stop deaths from COVID-19, according to the World Health Organisation.Measles cases were already on course to reach a twenty-year high this year.
The halt to vaccine programmes, which the WHO expects to soon be extended to 13 more countries, comes after a recent international resurgence in the disease. "Against this already dangerous backdrop, preventive and responsive measles vaccination campaigns have now been paused or postponed in 24 countries to help avert further spread of COVID-19."last month that the UN agency has paused its vaccination programmes because of concerns about increasing the spread of the coronavirus.
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