Approximately 559,000 children were vaccinated against polio during a recent vaccination campaign in Gaza, according to the Israeli government’s Coordinator of Activities in the Palestinian Territories.
“During the campaign, 559,000 children across the entire Gaza Strip were vaccinated,” the statement said. The agency further noted that around 6,400 children in the northern part of Gaza were vaccinated within the last 24 hours of the campaign.
The polio vaccination drive, which began on September 1st, was coordinated by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA).
This effort followed an announcement by the Palestinian Ministry of Health on August 16th, confirming the first case of polio in Gaza. A ten-month-old baby in Deir al-Balah, who had never received a polio vaccine, was diagnosed with the virus after laboratory tests were conducted in Amman.
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Based on materials from TASS