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How immunization in Kenya became a success amid the Covid-19 pandemic

05/10/2020

Ruth Kadide Keah

Independent Journalist

Topic Covid-19, Pandemic.
Country Kenya.

Coronavirus has caused colossal service disruption across the globe. Critical health services like routine immunization for children have severely been affected, posing a great risk in the spread of vaccine-preventable diseases like polio and measles.  As countries around the world imposed lockdowns and restriction of movement in a bid to curb the spread of the virus, parents in the coastal town of Mombasa in Kenya devised unique methods of ensuring their children get vaccinated.  

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