Gaza: Seven day ceasefire is crucial for polio vaccination campaign, says WHO

The World Health Organization and Unicef have pleaded for a seven day humanitarian pause in the fighting in Gaza to allow for vital polio vaccines to be administered.1

The organisations are planning to launch two rounds of a vaccination campaign at the end of August and September to prevent the spread of circulating variant poliovirus (VDPV) type 2. They aim to provide two drops of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 to over 640 000 children …