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Measles outbreak has killed 700 children in Zimbabwe

A child reacts as a health ministry official administers Measles-Rubella vaccination on her at Daraja Mbili village in Kisii on June 26, 2021. [Denish Ochieng, Standard]

The death toll from a measles outbreak in Zimbabwe has risen to almost 700 children, the health ministry has said.

Some are calling for the enactment of legislation to make vaccination mandatory in a country where anti-modern medicine religious sects hold sway on large swathes of the population of 15 million people.

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