Pakistan is still one of the eight nations where more than half of the world’s “zero-dose” children—those who do not receive any immunizations during their first year of life—live, despite significant advancements in routine childhood immunisation over the previous four decades.
Millions of children worldwide, including thousands in Pakistan, are now without vaccines as a result of the Covid-19 outbreak, according to a historic global research released by The Lancet on Tuesday.
The 2023 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study estimated coverage through 2030 after analyzing patterns from 1980 to 2023.
