Israel has agreed to a series of pauses in fighting in Gaza in September to allow young children in the enclave to be vaccinated for polio, according to United Nations and Israeli officials. The World Health Organization on Thursday said…
Get latest articles and stories on World at LatestLY. Delivered in collaboration with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and UNRWA, the two-round campaign will provide over 640,000 Gazan children under the age of 10 with two doses of…
Geneva: A large-scale vaccination campaign to fight a polio outbreak in the Gaza Strip is set to begin on September 1, announced the World Health Organisation (WHO) representative for the occupied Palestinian territories on Friday. Richard…
Israel will pause military operations in a staggered schedule across Gaza to allow health workers to give polio vaccinations to about 640,000 children, U.N. officials said on Thursday.
“The vaccination campaign will start on Sunday in central Gaza, with a “humanitarian pause” lasting from 6 a.m. until 3 p.m. for three days that can be extended by an additional day if needed,” WHO said
Four girls were hospitalised as they complained of uneasiness after being administered shots during an immunisation programme at a school in Madhya Pradesh's Bhind district, an official said on Friday.
The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday that it has secured an agreement with Israel to allow limited pauses in fighting in Gaza. This initiative aims to facilitate polio vaccinations for hundreds of thousands of children…
United Nations: Israel and Hamas have agreed to three separate, zoned three-day pauses in fighting in the Gaza Strip for the polio vaccination campaign, a World Health Organization (WHO) official has said. The polio vaccination campaign in…
The UN 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…
The possibility of a major polio outbreak has prompted Israel to agree to a brief pause in fighting in Gaza starting on Sunday, when 640,000 Palestinian children under the age of 10 will start receiving vaccinations. Imtiaz Tyab reports.
An agreement has been reached with Israel to allow a mass polio vaccination campaign to get underway in war-torn Gaza in a series of humanitarian pauses to begin on Sunday, the World Health Organization said.
Rik Peeperkorn, the World Health Organization's senior official for the Palestinian territories, said on Thursday that Israel had agreed to limited pauses in the fighting in Gaza to allow vaccinations against polio. Hamas said it is “ready…
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