MANILA, Philippines --- The United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef) has expressed alarm over the decline of the country's measles immunization coverage. In a statement to celebrate World Immunization Week, Unicef said the Philippines' measles immunization coverage declined "in an alarming rate," with a record of less than 70 percent, which is far below the required 95 percent. The coverage was 88 percent in 2013 and 73 percent in 2017, Unicef added. The UN agency said the decline in the immunization coverage leaves 2.9 million Filipino children vulnerable to diseases such as measles, rubella, and polio. "Public hesitancy, vaccine stock-outs, the lack of aptly trained health w...
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