LONDON (REUTERS): Measles cases jumped by 79% in the first two months of this year compared to 2021, after Covid-19 and lockdowns disrupted child vaccination campaigns around the world, according to data from Unicef and the World Health Organisation (WHO).
it means essential services and groceries are on the shelves. that is what schools open means and it is important that they go back. the health advice is that they can go back. we are currently listening into a live press conference coming from canberra, australia, where prime minister scott morrison is updating on the processes in place and the vaccination programmes in australia, the easing of restrictions and various other issues. we are listening in because we are waiting to see if he does say about world number one tennis start novak djokovic and whether he is able to play in the australian open or not. the draw for the open was expected to happenjust draw for the open was expected to happen just over one draw for the open was expected to happenjust over one hour ago. it has been delayed so we expect the draw for the tournament to take place in
treated but also to try and get the sheer length of the waiting times and lists down and that goes back to the question about the nhs about its own capacity, ability to sort staff, that isn t clear at the moment. forgive me if i ve misunderstood you but i m trying to understand why patients who aren t in the system, he might not be in the system or not, we don t know why that would cause any further delay to getting under way with treatment for patients who are in the system? what patients who are in the system? what has happened patients who are in the system? wisgt has happened during patients who are in the system? wist has happened during covid is many of the patients who would have been seeing their gp or referred by their gp so we would have seen them on waiting lists, there were interruptions to their care, equally, hospitals stopped seeing people, they switch their resources into dealing with covid and to some extent also with vaccination programmes. so normally you would see
there has been lots of frustrations towards me and the entire situation in the way it was dealt with. i would like to say that i always follow the rules. this was the reaction to novak djokovic s interview from the uk health minister what i would actually say is that the reason you can have, again, once again. the reason you can have, again, once again, millions of spectators for support, again, millions of spectators for support, including tennis, whether it is in support, including tennis, whether it is in australia or wimbledon is because it is in australia or wimbledon is because of it is in australia or wimbledon is because of the success of vaccination programmes. and it is interesting vaccination programmes. and it is interesting to note, relieved that know interesting to note, relieved that know that interesting to note, relieved that know that novak djokovic thinks it s ok for know that novak djokovic thinks it s ok for the know that novak djokovic thinks it s
it s led by the world health organization. wealthy countries provide the cash and international bodies like unicef do the work. the programme s called covax, and it s part of a plan to protect 5 billion people from covid. when we talk about covax, everybody gets very, very focused around the vaccines, but we also need syringes, safety boxes, personal protective equipment and other items, so that health care workers safely deploy the vaccination programmes on the ground. the idea is that covax buys billions of vaccines at the cheapest price. it then shares the doses out fairly so that poorer countries don t lose out. global vaccination is good for wealthy countries too. it s the best way to stop the virus mutating