Bosnia and Herzegovina should restore routine immunisation services as soon as possible because if there is another measles outbreak in the country during the coronavirus pandemic "it will be exceptionally dangerous," UNICEF's Regional Director for Europe and Central Asia, Afshan Khan, told N1.

“We have seen that more than 400,000 children are out of school, there have been some good efforts in trying to maintain distance learning and those obviously need to continue,” she said.

“It’s also very important that in Bosnia and Herzegovina we restore routine health services, particularly for young children who are most at risk and restoring routine immunisation services will be very important. If like last year we have a measles outbreak in the midst of a Covid pandemic it will be exceptionally dangerous,” she stressed.

Khan also spoke about the migrant situation in Bosnia during the coronavirus pandemic, stressing the need to provide them with adequate health care and water and sanitation services.

She pointed out that migrants must be able to move out of confined spaces as this is “going to be very important so we can maintain some level of social distancing.”

Khan explained that there are 1,8 billion children living under some form of lockdown across the world and spoke about the challenges they are facing.

She also discussed the role governments, NGO's and businesses can play in helping the most vulnerable.

The full interview can be seen in the video above.