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The number of children not immunized against measles doubled in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic

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The number of Bulgarian children not immunized against measles doubled in the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic. In 2020, more than 6,500 babies were not immunized, compared to 3,000 in 2019. Nearly 10,000 twelve year-old children did not receive a second mandatory vaccine shot against the virus. 

In 2019, 95% of infants and nearly 93% of all twelve-year-old children received the first and second dose of the combined vaccine against measles, rubella and mumps, indicates data of the National Centre for Infectious and Parasitic Diseases, following a request from the Bulgarian National Radio.




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