A Palestinian child receives polio vaccine drops during a vaccination campaign at UNRWA headquarters in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza Strip, on Oct. 14, and the final round of vaccinations are ...

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 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.

Over 58,600 children in northern Gaza received the final dose of the polio vaccine on Saturday, the United Nations said, as health workers race to vaccinate thousands more before the campaign ...

The final phase of the campaign had aimed to reach an estimated 119,000 children under 10 years old in northern Gaza with a second dose of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2).

By late August, UNICEF had successfully rushed 1.2 million doses of novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) to the Gaza Strip. Mobile and transit teams began vaccinating children under 10 on Sept. 1.

Polio vaccination in Gaza may resume on November 2, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said. "Polio vaccination in northern Gaza is ready to resume tomorrow.

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 ...

CAIRO (AP) — 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.

World Gaza polio vaccinations to resume Saturday: WHO. By. AFP. Published. November 1, 2024 ...

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.