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. 2022 Jan-Feb:13:100956.
doi: 10.1016/j.cegh.2021.100956. Epub 2022 Jan 5.

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

Sudhan Rackimuthu  1 , Reem Hunain  2 , Utkarsha Uday  3 , Muhammad Muzzamil  4 , Majeeb Ur Rehman  5 , Osaretin Christabel Okonji  6 , Careena Ann Lobo  1 , Mohammad Yasir Essar  7 , Ana Carla Dos Santos Costa  8 , Shoaib Ahmad  9 , Fidèle Nyimi Bushabu  10
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COVID-19, measles, and yellow fever: The need to reinforce vaccination in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Sudhan Rackimuthu et al. Clin Epidemiol Glob Health. 2022 Jan-Feb.

Abstract

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.

Keywords: COVID-19; Democratic Republic of Congo; Measles; Yellow fever.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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