15.07.2020

Press release

WHO and UNICEF warn of a decline in vaccinations during COVID-19

World Health Organisation (WHO) GENEVA/NEW YORK, 15 July 2020 – "The World Health Organization and UNICEF warned today of an alarming decline in the number of children receiving life-saving vaccines around the world. This is due to disruptions in the delivery and uptake of immunization services caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. According to new data by WHO and UNICEF, these disruptions threaten to reverse hard-won progress to reach more children and adolescents with a wider range of vaccines, which has already been hampered by a decade of stalling coverage." (Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)