Nairobi, Apr 24 (Prensa Latina) This year’s Africa Vaccination Week starts today as the Covid-19 pandemic is causing significant disruption to vaccination efforts and to the surveillance of vaccine-preventable diseases on the continent.
Measles preventive mass vaccination campaigns in Chad, Ethiopia, Nigeria and South Sudan have been suspended because of Covid-19, leaving around 21 million children who would have been vaccinated, unprotected.
According to the most recent report, Africa has as many as 27.862 positive cases of Covid-19, 1.304 deaths, and 7.633 recoveries.
South Africa continues to be the nation with largest toll of Covid-19 patients (3,953), followed by Egypt (3,891), Morocco (3,692) and Algeria (3,007).
Algerian government decided Friday to decrease partial confinement hours to nine provinces when this Friday starts the first day of the Ramadan religious holiday, which will last for a month.