Covid-Restrictions Brought Down Polio Cases: A Healthcare Achievement Or Numbers Deceiving?
Polio eradication has remarkably enhanced its level despite the COVID-19 pandemic. the restrictions on travel and movement during the pandemic contained the spread of poliovirus in endemic countries — Afghanistan and Pakistan. Even circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus (cVDPV) cases that accounted for many polio-related paralyses in recent years, have dropped. But the impact of the pandemic on health and routine immunisation systems might make it tougher to stay the planet polio-free, even after the last case. To avoid recurrence, polio vaccines will be administered long after polio is eradicated. The first case of untamed poliovirus in Africa in additional than five years underlines the danger of infections in the future. Thousands of biological samples round the world should st
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