Clinical Epidemiology and Global Health (Jan 2022)

COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever: The need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo

  • Sudhan Rackimuthu,
  • Reem Hunain,
  • Utkarsha Uday,
  • Muhammad Muzzamil,
  • Majeeb ur Rehman,
  • Osaretin Christabel Okonji,
  • Careena Ann Lobo,
  • Mohammad Yasir Essar,
  • Ana Carla dos Santos Costa,
  • Shoaib Ahmad,
  • Fidèle Nyimi Bushabu

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13
p. 100956

Abstract

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The immunization programs have been jeopardized all over the world due to the stay-at-home constraints imposed, to mitigate the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. This has directly or indirectly placed the global health care system in peril, resulting in an overlapping public health crisis. With this commentary, we aim to accentuate the need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in lieu of the intersecting COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever outbreak, besides, providing recommendations so as to help alleviate the situation.

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