The World Health Organisation, WHO has listed Nigeria as one of the nine African countries where measles outbreaks have resurfaced.
WHO in a statement by its Spokesman for Africa, Collins Boakye-Agyemang, listed other countries to include Chad, Cameroon, DR Congo, Liberia, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali and Uganda.
The world health body said the global measles crisis is an urgent wake-up call to the need for countries to ensure that all children – no matter where they live receive life-saving vaccines.
It said African countries have experienced a resurgence of measles outbreaks in the last 12 months, adding that Madagascar, in particular, has had a large measles outbreak affecting more than over one hundred and twenty two thousand cases in the months between October 2018 and April 2019.
According to the WHO/UNICEF coverage estimates as of 2017, only sixteen countries in the World Health Organization’s African Region had achieved 90 per cent or more immunisation coverage of the first dose of measles vaccine.
