The pandemic has disrupted vaccination programs in at least 68 countries, WHO, the global vaccine initiative Gavi, United Nations Children's Fund and the Sabin Vaccine Institute said in a joint statement.“We cannot exchange one deadly outbreak for another,” UNICEF Executive Director Henrietta Fore said at a news conference.
“One of the big issues we found is that people are reluctant to come for immunization services — out of concern for themselves and out of concern, of course, for the health care workers,” WHO's vaccine director Dr. Kate O'Brien said at the news conference. “Disruption to immunization programs from the Covid-19 pandemic threatens to unwind decades of progress against vaccine-preventable diseases like measles,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
“We cannot let our fight against one disease come at the expense of long-term progress in our fight against other diseases,” Fore said. “We have effective vaccines against measles, polio and cholera. While circumstances may require us to temporarily pause some immunization efforts, these immunizations must restart as soon as possible.”
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