Health Department calls for an urgent national response to the immunisation crisis [SOUND]

# The Department of Health is calling for urgent action to halt declining immunisation coverage and prevent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases. The decline could reverse decades of public health gains, including significant reductions in infant and under-five mortality achieved since the mid-2000s. Spokesperson Foster Mohale says the proportion of infants under one who have received no vaccinations has increased sharply, from 12.1-percent in 2017 to 36.3-percent earlier this year: