{"id":9644,"date":"2021-04-26T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/?p=9644"},"modified":"2021-04-26T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T17:30:50","slug":"new-un-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/2021\/04\/26\/new-un-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"New UN-led global immunization push aims to save more than 50 million lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven before the pandemic, there were worrying signs that we were beginning to lose ground in the fight against preventable child illness, with 20 million children already missing out on critical vaccinations\u201d, said\u00a0Henrietta Fore, UN Children\u2019s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0UNICEF, disruption caused by the\u00a0COVID-19\u00a0pandemic at the beginning of 2020 meant that vaccine deliveries fell from 2.29 billion in 2019, to just over two billion vaccine doses last year.<\/p>\n<h3><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-9645\" src=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/New-UN-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives-rapidnews-dailyrapid.jpg\" alt=\"New-UN-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives-rapidnews-dailyrapid\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/New-UN-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives-rapidnews-dailyrapid.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/New-UN-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives-rapidnews-dailyrapid-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/New-UN-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives-rapidnews-dailyrapid-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/New-UN-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives-rapidnews-dailyrapid-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyrapidnews.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/New-UN-led-global-immunization-push-aims-to-save-more-than-50-million-lives-rapidnews-dailyrapid-1536x864.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/>Lost ground<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cThe pandemic has made a bad situation worse, causing millions more children to go unimmunized\u201d, Ms. Fore maintained. \u201cNow that vaccines are at the forefront of everyone\u2019s minds, we must sustain this energy to help every child catch up on their measles, polio and other vaccines. We have no time to waste. Lost ground means lost lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Echoing that message, World Health Organization (WHO)\u00a0Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus\u00a0along with partner\u00a0GAVI, the Vaccine Alliance, urged universal access to immunization and far greater investment in primary health care to support mass jab drives.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">It\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldImmunizationWeek?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldImmunizationWeek<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Vaccines will help us end the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/COVID19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#COVID19<\/a> pandemic so we can finally be closer to each other again. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/VaccinesWork?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#VaccinesWork<\/a> to bring us closer. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/L0tYqpr6QK\">pic.twitter.com\/L0tYqpr6QK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 World Health Organization (WHO) (@WHO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WHO\/status\/1385715636819709960?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n\u201cVaccines will help us end the COVID-19 pandemic but only if we ensure fair access for all countries, and build strong systems to deliver them\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to the UN health agency, immunization services have started to recover from the disruption caused by COVID-19 restrictions in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>But a\u00a0WHO survey\u00a0indicated that more than one-third of respondent countries still report problems delivering routine jabs.<\/p>\n<h3>228 million at risk<\/h3>\n<p>Today, 60 lifesaving mass vaccination campaigns have been postponed in 50 countries, putting around 228 million people &#8211; mostly children &#8211; at risk for diseases such as measles, yellow fever and polio, WHO warned.<\/p>\n<p>More than half of the 50 affected countries are in Africa, while measles campaigns have seen most disruption, accounting for 23 postponed vaccination drives, affecting an estimated 140 million people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany of these (measles) campaigns have been delayed for over a year\u201d, WHO noted, warning that failure to protect against this highly contagious disease risks large outbreaks wherever people are unvaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>Serious measles outbreaks have already been reported in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Pakistan and Yemen as a result of gaps in vaccination coverage, WHO said, at the start of\u00a0World Immunization Week 2021.<\/p>\n<p>These outbreaks are happening in places already grappling with conflict situations as well as service\u00a0disruptions due to ongoing response measures to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<div class=\"dnd-widget-wrapper context-un_news_full_width type-video\">\n<div class=\"dnd-atom-rendered\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cEven before the 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