A health official said a polio vaccination campaign had begun in Gaza on Saturday (Aug 31) while an aid worker said a large-scale rollout would begin on Sunday, coinciding with a "humanitarian pause" agreed by Israel and Hamas.
A health official said a polio vaccination campaign had begun in Gaza on Saturday while an aid worker said a large-scale rollout would begin on Sunday, coinciding with a"humanitarian pause" agreed by Israel and Hamas.
An unspecified number of children received the first dose of the vaccination, which involves two doses and is administered orally, at Nasser Hospital in the southern city of Khan Yunis. "At the end of each regional vaccination campaign, a situational assessment will be conducted for the area," it said.
Poliovirus is highly infectious, and most often spread through sewage and contaminated water – an increasingly common problem inThe media office of the Hamas-run government in Gaza said on Saturday that the vaccination campaign required an"immediate ceasefire". The Ramallah-based Palestinian health ministry said earlier this month that tests in Jordan had confirmed polio in an unvaccinated 10-month-old baby from central Gaza.
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