2024-09-01 11:53:39
of ‘Humanitarian breakthrough’ Vaccinations with uncertain outlines must begin on Sunday, September 1, to allow for mass polio vaccination in the Gaza Strip, where the first case was recently confirmed in a 10-month-old baby .
The campaign, announced by the government of Israel and Gaza’s Islamist movement Hamas, aims to vaccinate 640,000 children under the age of 10 in the Palestinian territory, which has been besieged and ravaged by nearly 11 months of war.
Vaccination against the disease was administered on Saturday. But it was not until this Sunday that the campaign officially launched in Gaza, where polio was eradicated twenty-five years ago. The United Nations has sent approximately 1.2 million doses of nOPV2 vaccine, including the oral two-drop vaccine. The second dose of vaccine must be given four weeks after the first dose.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Israel had accepted a series of ‘Humanitarian breakthrough’ Three days each in the central region, followed by southern and northern Gaza corridors. Dementin “Report on a Comprehensive Ceasefire” To carry out this vaccination campaign, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office announced that Israel “Will authorize[it] Just a humanitarian corridor ».
Israeli authorities explained that vaccinations will take place from Sunday to Tuesday from 6 am to 2 pm in the center of the area where the first case of polio has been confirmed, in a 10-month-old baby.
They also announced three days of simultaneous vaccinations in southern and northern Gaza, where almost all of the 2.4 million residents are now displaced.
Especially because of damaged roads and displaced populations, the United Nations said each region may need an extra day.
The United Nations says vaccination rates must reach at least 90% at all stages of epidemic prevention.
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