COVID's Uneven Toll Captured in Data - Scientific American
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Around 23m children worldwide ‘missed out on routine childhood jabs in 2020’ (Gareth Fuller/PA) Around 23 million children worldwide may have missed out on getting childhood vaccines through routine immunisation programmes last year due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, report suggests. Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) also indicates up to 17 million children may have not received a single vaccine in 2020. Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said: “Even as countries clamour to get their h...
Don't show me this message again✕ Upto 17 million children may have not received a single vaccine in 2020 - UNICEF and WHO report. (Rex Features) As many as 23 million children worldwide may have missed out on routine childhood vaccines due to disruptions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, report suggests. Data from the World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (Unicef) also indicates up to 17 million of those children may have not received a single jab of any kind in 2020. “Even as countries clamour to get their hands on Covid-19 vaccines, we have gone...