Deadly diseases such as measles, tetanus, and whooping cough are on the rise in Ethiopia's Tigray region. The percentage of children in Tigray receiving routine vaccines has fallen below 10% this year, data from the Tigray Health Bureau show. -Measles outbreak-Health Minister Lia Tadesse said vaccines had been provided to Tigray this year and that more were ready to be delivered once conditions allowed. Ethiopia's health minister Lia said 860,000 doses of measles vaccines were delivered to Tigray last December and additional doses were delivered on April 2. Another planned delivery is on hold at the instruction of the U.N. World Food Program, which coordinates humanitarian deliveries into Tigray, Lia said in a statement.

Source: Ethiopian News September 21, 2022 17:50 UTC