The Covid-19 pandemic has led to huge drops in childhood vaccinations, leaving countries more vulnerable to disease outbreaks, the World Health Organization has warned.
At least 23m children worldwide missed out on routine jabs last year as health services were disrupted, according to data from the WHO and Unicef. Vaccination rates fell in most countries, the data show, with south-east Asia and the eastern Mediterranean regions the most badly affected.
In India last year, more than 3m children did not receive their first dose of the diphtheria, pertussis and tetanus combined vaccine, up from 1.4m who did not get jabbed in 2019.
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