24- 30 April is the World Immunization Week. The campaign also outlined the importance of immunization as a foundation for robust health systems, and attainment of universal health coverage. Should another disease emerge health systems that are already struggling to fight COVID-19 would be weakened further. One key goal of these guidelines is to protect unnecessary loss of life from those diseases which vaccines already exist. This way preventable diseases will be kept at bay while fighting those that do not yet have vaccines such as COVID-19.

Source: The Star April 30, 2020 00:22 UTC