The third and final phase of polio vaccinations is underway in the northern Gaza strip after being postponed due to a lack of access and safety concerns, UNICEF announced on Friday.

The World Health Organization said Friday that the necessary second round of child polio vaccinations in northern Gaza would finally begin on Saturday, after Israeli bombing halted the drive.

Israel-Gaza War WHO says Gaza polio vaccine campaign to begin Sunday Israel, health officials said, has agreed to “humanitarian pauses” to allow more than 600,000 children to be vaccinated ...

A polio vaccination campaign in north Gaza is expected to resume on Sunday, a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) said six people, including four children, were injured following a ...

The initial rounds of an ambitious campaign to protect children from polio in the Gaza Strip hit their target, but escalating violence is undermining that progress.

CAIRO — The threat of polio is rising fast in the Gaza Strip, prompting aid groups to call for an urgent pause in the war so they can ramp up vaccinations and head off a full-blown outbreak. One ...

(Reuters) -The third phase of a delayed polio vaccination campaign in Gaza will begin on Saturday, aid organisations said on Friday, after the rollout was derailed by Israeli bombardments, mass ...

– 119,000 children left waiting – “Polio vaccination in northern Gaza is ready to resume tomorrow,” WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said Friday on X.

Aid groups in Gaza aim to avert a polio outbreak with a surge of vaccinations Polio had been eradicated in Gaza 25 years ago, but vaccinations plunged after the war began 10 months ago.

Gaza polio vaccinations to resume Saturday: WHO The announcement that the final phase of polio vaccination in the Gaza Strip can go ahead came a day after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken ...

The World Health Organization said Friday that the necessary second round of child polio vaccinations in northern Gaza would finally begin on Saturday, after Israeli bombing halted the drive.