Polio vaccine campaign begins in Gaza a day before fighting is expected to pause
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Gaza’s Health Ministry says it has begun a three-day campaign to inoculate children in Gaza against polio and prevent the spread of the virus.
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Israel’s military says polio vaccines for more than 1 million people have been delivered to Gaza, after the first confirmed case of the disease in the territory in a quarter-century. It is not immediately clear how the vaccine will be distributed in Gaza.
Israel’s military says polio vaccines for more than 1 million people have been delivered to Gaza, after the first confirmed case of the disease in the territory in a quarter-century
UNICEF is pushing for a pause in the fighting to allow health workers to get two doses to every child, after Gaza recorded its first polio case in 25 years.
By Maya Davis, CNN (CNN) — After six sewage samples taken in Gaza in late June tested positive for poliovirus, World Health Organization Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that it was “just a matter of time” before the disease reached thousands of Palestinian children.
The IDF and Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for the vaccination of some 640,000 children against polio.
Hamas and the Israeli military both agreed to multiple three-day pauses in the war in Gaza so health officials can vaccinate some 640,000 children against polio.
A baby has contracted the first case of polio in Gaza in 25 years. And now, the World Health Organization has announced plans for a pause in fighting between Israel and Hamas, in order to get young children vaccinated. Host Carolyn Beeler explains.
The operation depends on brief pauses in fighting in a war zone where the rule of law has broken down and hundreds of thousands of people are living in temporary shelters.
UNITED NATIONS -- The U.N. World Health Organization said Thursday that it has reached an agreement with Israel for limited pauses in fighting in Gaza to allow for polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children after a baby contracted the first confirmed case in 25 years in the Palestinian…
Israel, health officials said, has agreed to successive “humanitarian pauses” in military operations in Gaza to allow more than 600,000 children to be vaccinated amid an outbreak of the disease.
A U.S. official says Secretary of State Antony Blinken made a push for arrangements for safe vaccination during a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last week.
