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Latest round of Gaza polio campaign started well, WHO says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe World Health Organization says it has been able to start the second round of its polio campaign in central Gaza and vaccinate tens of thousands of children, in coordination with Israel, despite Israeli strikes in the designated protected zone hours before.
Israel has agreed to localized humanitarian pauses in the fighting to enable vaccines to reach hundreds of thousands of children.
WHO spokesperson Tarik Jašarević tells a Geneva press briefing that over 92,000 children, or around half of the children targeted for polio vaccines in the central area, were inoculated on Monday.
“What we have received from colleagues is that the vaccination went without a major issue yesterday, and we hope it will continue the same way,” he said.
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