 While still token health matters, the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has warned against the resurfacing of the polio virus if adequate preventing measures are not taken. Experts are attributing days to the hesitancy by the public and the acceptance of the COVID-19 vaccine, which might have played a major role in the skepticism displayed by Nigerians on routine immunization acceptance. Plus, TV Africa's correspondent Destiny Momo reports. Nigeria was satisfied polio-free in August 2019, which made her the last country in Africa to achieve a polymerized free milestone in August 2020, making the continent polio-free after many years of battling the disease. Our medical practitioner Fred Unubukai, like some other experts, speak after need for reflective surveillance when a disease is thought to have been eradicated. The only challenge we're having is most times in a pandemic like COVID, other diseases tend to suffer. And we don't want to lose the gains we have gotten over polio. This is why we need to keep synthesizing. During the era of polio, the campaign was massive. A large number of children within a week could have about 60 million children being vaccinated. But because what we are seeing right now, the advent of COVID-19 vaccine, people don't want to have conversations about a vaccine anymore. We noticed that some certain areas, I think certain geopolitical zones are not keen on taking vaccines. And when this happens, it makes them predisposed to developing polio. But to prevent polio itself now, I think the best bet is for people to be educated on the benefits of having the vaccine. Could it be that we celebrated too early? Or could the fear of the imagines of wild polio virus be as a result of the vaccine hesitancy evoked by COVID-19? Parents should be told that please, we beg you, take your children that are qualified to be vaccinated to any center, primary care centers or vaccination centers where they should be vaccinated. Because if you start emphasizing again, this is what to look out for, what it doesn't present through that form. Polio is quite not a very happy condition because it's basically called classic paralysis. Although people react differently to the COVID vaccine, experts still counsel on the need for the acceptance of COVID vaccine by all. The benefits of having the vaccine far away the risks, because the conditions that could arise when the person gets COVID-19, a lot of side effects come with having COVID-19, including deaths. If you can give your child the polio vaccine, the world stops you from giving your child the COVID-19 vaccine. The consensus here is that the spate of vaccine hesitancy is increased, stressing the need for increased vaccination for newborn and children still under the age of routine immunization. Destin Mamo, for Plus TV Africa.