The Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI) was created to scale up immunization of infants, but there have still been records of insufficient levels of immunization against childhood diseases in under-developed countries. Missed opportunity for vaccination is a strategy of achieving immunization coverage of at least 90% by reducing the process that facilitates it being missed and improving health service delivery in under-developed countries like Nigeria. The main objective of the study was to determine the level of missed opportunities in childhood routine immunization in Benin City, Edo State. A cross-sectional study design was utilized for this study in Primary Health Care facilities across the three Local Government areas in Benin city using a multistage sampling technique. The questionnaire was a pretested structured WHO tool, that was interviewer administered. Four hundred and seventy-seven of the children were aged 5 months or less, 20.5% of the children were in the age bracket aged 6-11 months, while only 5 children were aged 18-23 months (0.8%). The mean age of the children was 4.2 ± 3.5 months. The mean age of the male children was 4.4 ±3.5 months, while the mean age of the female was 3.9 ± 3.2 months. In conclusion, missed opportunity for vaccination in this study was high (16.1%) and this can lead to increase in vaccine preventable diseases.

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) has assumed a global health concern since the first case was recorded in Wuhan community China in December 2019. The objective of this paper is to report the level of practice of safety precautions against COVID 19 among pregnant women attending Antenatal Clinics in Central Hospital Benin, Benin City in Nigeria. A self- administered questionnaire on the level of practice of safety precautions against covid19 infection was administered to a total of 420 pregnant women attending antenatal clinics in central Hospital Benin City for Data collection. The results showed that two hundred and four (48.6%) of the respondents reported that they have recently avoided crowded places. Three hundred and seventy two (88.6%) reported recently wearing mask whenever they left home. Three hundred and twenty four (77.1%) of the respondents had good practice of safety precautions against COVID19. The study showed a good practice of safety precautions against COVID19 and this was influenced by the women’s level of education, occupation and knowledge of COVID-19. However, there is still the need to improve the knowledge of the women attending antenatal clinic regarding COVID-19 through health education seminars. Also up scaling the practice of safety precautions could be done through such health education seminars. Keywords: Pregnant women, Practice, Safety precaution, covid-19

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