Coronavirus Forcing Parents To Skip Kids’ Vaccinations
March 27, 2020
1:31 pm
The novel coronavirus pandemic that has forced billions of people across the globe to stay home is making parents skip routine immunisations for their kids, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF warned Thursday.
The phenomenon is being aggravated by overburdened health services where medical workers are being diverted from giving vaccines to focus on the COVID-19 response.
Some governments might even have to postpone mass immunisation campaigns as a way of slowing the disease’s spread, UNICEF said.
The agency’s Executive Director Henrietta Fore said the requirement for people to stay home and observe social distancing was leading parents to …
