Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Routine Immunization in State of Kuwait: Short-Term Disruption With Rebound in Vaccination Utilization

Al-Ayyadhi, Najla; Al-Awadhi, Shaimaa; Al-Mathkouri, Radhia; Al-Tayar, Eman

doi:10.1016/j.focus.2022.100031

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“…6,7 Reducing the coverage of children with the required and recommended immunization program even for short periods could endanger children's health and the challenges of a secondary epidemic. 8 The Rulebook on the Program of Required and Recommended Immunization of the Population of the Republic of Serbia against Certain Infectious Diseases represents important guidelines for vaccination of the population. The program refers to required and recommended active and passive immunization for persons of a certain age, persons with increased risk, persons exposed to certain infectious diseases, employees in health care institutions, as well as for passengers in international traffic.…”

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The impact of Covid-19 pandemic on coverage of children with mandatory vaccines in the Republic of Serbia

Krstić¹,

Despotović²,

Krstić³

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Objective. Infectious diseases have always been a challenge for medicine and healthcare workers. In addition to the enormous progress of medicine, they still represent a major public health problem. The pandemic caused by Covid-19 shows that. Due to the pandemic itself, the overload of the health care system, the fear of infection, the reallocation of health resources to respond to the pandemic, and other measures to control and suppress the infection, routine immunization services for children have been disrupted around the world. The aim of the work is to examine the impact of Covid-19 on the frequency of immunization of children with mandatory vaccines. Methods. Through retrospective analysis of data from the annual reports of the WHO and the Institute for Public Health of the Republic of Serbia "Dr. Milan Jovanović Batut", comparative data on coverage of required vaccination against infectious diseases in the Republic of Serbia was provided. Results. The results of a five-year analysis in the Republic of Serbia indicate that coverage of more than 95% was met only with immunization against tuberculosis, while against diphtheria, tetanus and whooping cough, coverage of 95% was until 2019, only to record a decline later. In 2021, a percentage decrease can be seen for all vaccines except the tuberculosis vaccine, and the lowest coverage is for the MMR vaccine (74.8%). In Serbia, in 2020 compared to 2019, the percentage of people vaccinated with the MMR vaccine decreased by 9.9%, i.e. by 3.3% in 2021 compared to 2020, and the data for central Serbia show a decrease of 11.6% in time period from 2019 to 2021. Conclusion. The trend of decline in immunization coverage of mandatory vaccines in Serbia follows the global trend, with the exception of the MMR vaccine, where a significantly greater decline is recorded in Serbia.

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