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Edina Amponsah-Dacosta, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Vaccines for Africa Initiative, University of Cape Town

COVID pandemic created immunisation gaps in Africa. Over half a million children are at risk

Routine immunisation has resulted in diseases like measles being drastically reduced. Laszlo Mates/shutterstock

The COVID pandemic exposed the fault lines in health systems and national routine immunisation programmes around the world.

A recent World Health Organization (WHO) report showed that the pandemic fuelled the largest sustained decline in childhood vaccine coverage rates.

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