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Health ministry: Sixty-nine percent of Gaza children vaccinated against polio
8 September 2024 12:22 BST
Sixty-nine percent of children in Gaza under the age of 10 have received their first dose of the polio vaccine, the enclave's Ministry of Health said today.
The ministry said in a statement that this had been achieved within a week of launching the first phase of the UN-led vaccination campaign.
The campaign, which is being conducted in collaboration with Unrwa, the World Health Organisation and Unicef, continues in Deir el-Balah and Khan Younis, and has so far vaccinated 441,647 children, as of Saturday evening.
The ministry added that the first phase of the campaign would continue in the Gaza and North Gaza governorates.