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According to the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) and the NHS, more than one in 10 eligible children under the age of five in England have not had the MMR vaccine or are partially vaccinated.
It says since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic in March 2020, there has been a ‘significant’ drop in the number of parents and carers getting their children vaccinated against MMR - which protects against measles, mumps and rubella - and taking up other childhood vaccines.
The first MMR dose is offered to children when they turn one and the second dose to pre-school children when they are around three years and four months old.
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