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WHO says 2nd round of polio vaccine drive to begin in north Gaza Saturday

By AFP 1 November 2024, 2:14 pm 8 Edit
A child receives a vaccination for polio at a make-shift camp for people displaced by conflict in a school run by the UNRWA in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 5, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)
A child receives a vaccination for polio at a make-shift camp for people displaced by conflict in a school run by the UNRWA in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on September 5, 2024 amid the ongoing war in the Palestinian territory between Israel and Hamas. (Bashar TALEB / AFP)

GENEVA, Switzerland — The World Health Organization says that a second round of child polio vaccinations in northern Gaza would begin on Saturday after Israeli bombing in the area halted the drive.

“Polio vaccination in northern Gaza is ready to resume tomorrow,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says on X, adding: “We are assured of the necessary humanitarian pause in Gaza City to conduct the campaign.”

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