Mum’s Fear: Go for measles jab and get Covid!

Immunisation of the second dose of measles in the county stands at 43 per cent. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

Sophia Lelemur from Ilng’arua village in Baringo South was reluctant to take her one-and-a-half-year-old son for immunisation during the Covid-19 pandemic. Her son Gabriel was expected to undertake Vitamin A and a measles jab. But she feared Gabriel might contract the virus. And in any case, “he was not sick,” she says.