GENEVA: The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced it suspended vaccination campaigns for the first time in three decades. With the coronavirus marching swiftly across the world and nations imposing strict travel restrictions to slow its spread, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative of the WHO has announced that its health workers cannot continue their mass immunisation drives — and warned this risks a resurgence of the poliovirus. “We’re devastated by the fact that we have to stop the activities for a disease that we were working so hard to eradicate,” said the World Health Organization’s Michel Zaffran. AFP
