Abstract

Objective: To report on the tendency of immunizations uptake amongst infants in a fixed post of vaccinations, following the Covid 19 first case in Yaounde.

Method: This was a cross sectional study. Data were sourced from the pediatric unit registries of ESSOS Hospital Center (EHC). We compared absolute number of expanded immunization doses received over the same period in February to April 2019 and 2020 respectively The Statistical software R version 4.0.2 was used for all computations.

Results: A total of 168 and 148 babies were born in EHC during the month of February 2019 and 2020 respectively. The vaccinate rate decreased from April to May with rates in 2020 lower than in 2019 (54% (80/148) vs 81% (137/168), p < 0.001), which corresponds to pandemic period.

Conclusion: In this setting, without any reported stock outs of unit doses of routine immunization programme, a slightly decrease was observed in 2020, due to the COVID outbreak.

Keywords: Covid 19; Immunization; Children

References

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Citation

Citation: Anne Esther Njom Nlend., et al. “Rapid Assessment of Covid 19 Pandemic on Uptake of Routine Immunizations amongst Children in a Fixed Site in Yaoundé, Cameroon”. Acta Scientific Paediatrics 3.12 (2020): 30-31.

Copyright

Copyright: © 2020 Anne Esther Njom Nlend., et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.