From WHO ‘confident’ that polio vaccine drive in Gaza hit target of 90% of kids under 10
A child receives a vaccination for polio in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 5, 2024 (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
The World Health Organization says it’s “confident” that a giant polio vaccination drive in Gaza has hit its target of reaching more than 90 percent of children under 10.
“We are confident that we probably reached the target,” Richard Peeperkorn, the WHO’s representative for the Palestinian territories, tells reporters on the final day of the first phase of the campaign aiming to provide hundreds of thousands of children with a first dose of the vaccine.
