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Friday, August 16, 2024
From the Liveblog of
Friday, August 16, 2024
WHO asks for week-long truce to vaccinate Gazan children against polio
GENEVA, Switzerland — The United Nations asks for breaks in the fighting in Gaza for seven days to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been discovered in the territory’s wastewater.
UN agencies want to provide novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) to children under 10 starting later this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. “Without the humanitarian pauses, the delivery of the campaign will not be possible,” it adds.
