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its maiden voyage. good evening. the united nations children s agency says millions of children have missed some or all of their routine vaccinations due to covid lockdowns and disruption caused by the pandemic. unicef says that across the world, up to 67 million children have missed out on vaccinations in some way. the organisation believes increased misinformation during the pandemic has contributed to vaccine hesitancy and the consequences are potentially, very serious. last year the number of measles cases doubled and polio numbers rose sharply. i spoke to lily capriani, head of global advocacy on health, nutrition & climate at unicef for more on this. india is poised to overtake china as the world s most populous nation by the middle of this year. last year, when we had so much disruption of the pandemic and it was a lot harder for families to get to clinics, a lot of disruption to health services and staff being diverted onto other things. so there were lots of obstacle ....
College hospital. thank you very much forjoining us here on the programme. we have been hearing about the number of children across the planet who has missed out on their vaccines, the planet who has missed out on theirvaccines, butjust the planet who has missed out on their vaccines, but just tell us about what is happening in nigeria. thank you, i am happy to be here. what we have heard about nigeria is actually true. i lot of missed cases of vaccines. and this has been due to a number of factors. bay side the coveted pandemic disruption, there has always been the problem of distrust in government policy a lot of organisational posts and campaigns are refusing to bring people out for vaccination. besides that, i think we need to stick to this more, because theyjerry happens to be a kind of cultural ....