The UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) is calling for “humanitarian pauses” to provide children in Gaza with a second dose of polio vaccines. Around 560,000 Palestinian children under 10 received the first dose as part of a polio vaccination campaign from September 1 to 12. According to World Health Organization Director-General Tedro...
GENEVA (AA) – More than 560,000 children in Gaza were vaccinated against polio in the first round, the World Health Organization (WHO) chief says. “Over 560,000 children aged below ten years of age were vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign in Gaza, which was completed yesterday,”...
Palestinian Territories – AFP A polio vaccination campaign officially began Sunday in the Gaza Strip where the United Nations has announced “humanitarian pauses” to allow for large-scale innoculation, a health official told AFP. The campaign was announced after Gaza recorded its first polio case in a quarter of a century last...
GAZA CITY, Palestine (AA) – Gaza’s health ministry announced late Sunday that it had received 1.26 million doses of polio vaccine. “A total of 1.26 million doses of the OPV2 polio vaccine have arrived, along with 500 vaccine coolers,” the ministry said in a statement. “Preparations are underway to launch the (vaccine) campaig...
