Covid-19 pandemic is still disrupting normal health services, especially life-saving immunisation for children in the poorest countries - WHO
FILE PHOTO: Director General of the World Health Organization Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus attends a news conference on the situation of the coronavirus , in Geneva, Switzerland, February 28, 2020.
"We have a long road ahead of us and a lot of work to do," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a virtual news conference in Geneva, adding that a second wave of infections could be prevented with the right actions. "Children may be at relatively low risk from severe disease and death from Covid-19 - the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus - but can be at high risk from other diseases that can be prevented with vaccines," said Tedros.
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