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2nd round of polio vaccination campaign set to start in Gaza: health authorities
By Xinhua Published: Oct 15, 2024 10:13 AM
A child receives a dose of the polio vaccine at a UN-run clinic in Deir al-Balah city, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 14, 2024. Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip is scheduled to start on Monday for three or four days. (Photo: Xinhua)

A child receives a dose of the polio vaccine at a UN-run clinic in Deir al-Balah city, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 14, 2024. Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip is scheduled to start on Monday for three or four days. (Photo: Xinhua)


 
A child receives a dose of the polio vaccine at Al-Maghazi camp, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 14, 2024. Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip is scheduled to start on Monday for three or four days. (Photo: Xinhua)

A child receives a dose of the polio vaccine at Al-Maghazi camp, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 14, 2024. Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip is scheduled to start on Monday for three or four days. (Photo: Xinhua)


 
A child receives a dose of the polio vaccine at Al-Maghazi camp, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 14, 2024. Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip is scheduled to start on Monday for three or four days. (Photo: Xinhua)

A child receives a dose of the polio vaccine at Al-Maghazi camp, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 14, 2024. Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip is scheduled to start on Monday for three or four days. (Photo: Xinhua)


 
Gaza-based health authorities said on Saturday that the second round of the polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip is scheduled to start on Monday for three or four days.

During the second round of the campaign, an estimated 591,700 children aged under ten in Gaza will be vaccinated with a second dose, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on social media platform X on Friday.

A minimum of two doses of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 are needed to interrupt poliovirus transmission, it added.

The Gaza health authorities, the WHO, the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, and the UN Children's Fund jointly carried out the campaign.

According to the WHO, around 560,000 children under ten years old were vaccinated against polio during the first round of an emergency vaccination campaign conducted in three phases from Sept. 1 to Sept. 12 in the Gaza Strip.