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Covid-19’s Legacy Haunts Measles Outbreak Response

Monday, April 20, 2026

Health workers scramble to handle a measles outbreak. They are tasked with expanding immunization coverage.

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Parents queue with their toddlers for measles-rubella (MR) vaccination at Posyandu Delima in Leuwigoong, Garut, West Java, April 6, 2026. Tempo/Prima Mulia. tempo : 177880135254.

THE activities of the infectious disease special team at Dr. Mohammad Hoesin Central General Hospital in Palembang, South Sumatra, have returned to what they were when the Covid-19 pandemic struck six years ago. The unit, comprising 50 health workers and formed during the coronavirus outbreak, is now receiving dozens of patients infected with the measles virus. Most of them are children.

Harun Hudari, Head of the Emerging Infectious Disease

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Aminuddin (Bandung), Ricky Juliansyah (Depok), and Yuni Rahmawati (Palembang) contributed to the writing of this article.

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