Recrudescence of measles in India: an emerging threat.

The civic body has set up isolation wards in multiple hospitals, surveillance systems to identify cases and track Measles-Rubella vaccine dropouts, and vaccination sessions across Mumbai to control the spread of the disease. Disruption of the routine immunization programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic has widened the vaccine coverage gap even further, resulting in nearly 3 million children in India not receiving any doses of the measles vaccine [[7]]. Keywords: Measles; COVID-19; India; outbreak EN Measles COVID-19 India outbreak 326 327 2 05/16/23 20230601 NES 230601 As India continues to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic after more than 44 million cumulative cases, an upsurge in cases of measles has been reported in multiple states across the country, particularly in the state of Maharashtra. [Extracted from the article]