Cameroon: Covid-19 Undermines Effort to Eliminate Polio

Younde — This article was supported by Global Health Strategies.

Public health measures adopted to slow the spread of COVID-19 threatened efforts to eliminate polio, experts say

Strategies adopted in 2020 to fight COVID-19 around the world have impacted routine vaccination against poliomyelitis and even measles.

In 2020, about 7.7 million children did not receive the life-saving first dose of diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis, measles and polio vaccines as a result of COVID-19 lock down measures, the…