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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | COVID-19: Child immunisation pushed back by years in India during 2020 -Banjot Kaur

COVID-19: Child immunisation pushed back by years in India during 2020 -Banjot Kaur

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published Published on Jul 15, 2021   modified Modified on Jul 16, 2021

-Down to Earth

As many as 23 million children across the world did not get routine vaccines, according to WHO-Unicef analysis

Several years of progress made in routine immunisation in India has been undone due to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). According to an estimate released by the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef July 15, 2021, as many as 3,038,000 children in India did not receive the first dose of Diptheria-Tetanus-Pertusis (DPT-1) vaccine dose in 2020, that saw the emergence of COVID-19. This is the sharpest downfall any country has registered across the globe for this vaccine. 

Consider this: In 2020, 87 per cent of the targeted children in India got the DPT-1 vaccine according to the WHO analysis. This coverage level was last seen in 2010. In 2019, just a year before the pandemic, the coverage had been 94 per cent.

The progress on the third dose of DTP has gone back to 2014 levels at 85 per cent. It was 91 per cent in 2019. The BCG vaccination has dropped to 85 per cent, which was the coverage level in 2005. It was 92 per cent in 2019. 

The anti-measles vaccine coverage has come down to 89 per cent for the first dose. It was 93 per cent in 2018. For the second dose, it has come down to 84 per cent.  This rate is well below the 95 per cent recommended by WHO to protect against measles – often the first disease to resurge when children are not inoculated with vaccines and insufficient to stop other vaccine-preventable diseases.

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Down to Earth, 15 July, 2021, https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/health/covid-19-child-immunisation-pushed-back-by-years-in-india-during-2020-77974?fbclid=IwAR0_UaHeT1KsiGybwi7SYanKdWSlSjBSkg9tOekwUq6dDu30jq0Cg69jTiY


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