Tag: immunisation

Global immunisation services reached four million more children in 2022, compared with the previous year as countries increase efforts meant to combat the historic backsliding in immunisation triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic.Millions missing outData published by the UN agencies on Monday reveal that, in 2022, 20.5 million children failed ...

Here are today’s top news, analysis and opinion. Know all about the latest news and other news updates from Hindustan Times.Immunisation coverage lower in children post-Covid: Lancet studyThe immunisation coverage among Covid-affected children in the country has witnessed a reduction compared to the unaffected ones, a new study has ...

#Pakistan News The percentage of children who received three doses of the vaccine against diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis fell five percentage points between 2019 and 2021 to 81 percent. Observers had hoped 2021 would be a year of recovery after the lockdowns of 2020 — but instead it was ...

In February, the southern African country recently recorded its first polio case in 30 years and the first on the continent since 2020.Blantyre, Malawi – At the Gateway Clinic in Blantyre, Malawi’s second-biggest city, a sense of fulfilment overwhelmed Gloria Kasula after she had her three-year-old child vaccinated against ...

#Pakistan News Covid-19 has killed over 3M people and infected more than 141M others globally. Here are the latest coronavirus-related developments for April 18: People shop in a market in Jerusalem, on April 18, 2021, after Israeli authorities announced that face masks for Covid-19 prevention were no longer required ...

Half a century since its eradication in the west, it is hard today to appreciate the terrible effect that polio had on people’s lives then and how feared it was as a disease. The virus killed hundreds every year in the UK alone, and left thousands afflicted with long-lasting ...