More than 161.000 children under the age of 10 were vaccinated in central Gaza during the first two days of the campaign, surpassing the target of around 150.000 in two days.
World Health Organization (WHO) announced, on the third day of the mass vaccination campaign against polio in Gazi, that until today it has vaccinated about a quarter of children under the age of 10 in that Palestinian territory, devastated by the months-long Israeli invasion.
The vaccination campaign was accelerated after the discovery of the first case of polio in Gaza last month, and relies on daily eight-hour pauses in fighting between the Israeli army and the Hamas militant movement in some areas of the besieged enclave.
WHO Representative for the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Rick Piperkorn, told reporters that more than 161.000 children under the age of 10 were vaccinated in the central part of Gaza during the first two days of the campaign, surpassing the set goal of about 150.000 in two days, reports Reuters.
"It's going well so far. These humanitarian breaks are working for now. We still have 10 days," said the representative of the World Health Organization.
Health teams will head to the south later this week, where they intend to vaccinate about 340.000 children, and then head to the north of Gaza, Piperkorn said.
According to an earlier announcement by the WHO, at least 90 percent of children in Gaza need to be vaccinated in order for the campaign to be successful and to prevent the spread of polio in Gaza and outside the enclave.
Source: FoNet
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