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One child in five still not vaccinated, says World Health Organization

Pediatrician Amanda Porro administers a measles vaccination to a girl at the Miami Children's Hospital on January 28, 2015 in Florida [AFP photo]

One-fifth of the world's children are still not receiving routine life-saving vaccinations and efforts to ensure global immunisation coverage remain "far off track," the World Health Organization said Wednesday.

Nearly 22 million infants, many living in the world's poorest countries, missed out in 2013 on the routine vaccine against diphtheria, whooping cough and tetanus (DTP3), WHO said, citing the latest available data.

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