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Vaccination levels falling during pandemic, UN warns

Three-quarters of more than 80 nations responding to UN survey said that the COVID pandemic had disrupted immunisation programmes. [AFP]

The number of children worldwide getting life-saving vaccinations has declined this year largely because of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization and UNICEF warned on Wednesday.

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