2024-09-01 11:53:39
Of those “humanitarian holidays” with uncertain contours must begin on Sunday, September 1, to receive a large vaccination against poliomyelitis in Gaza Strip, where the first case was recently confirmed in a 10-month-old child.
This campaign, announced by Israel and the government of the Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, aims to vaccinate more than 640,000 children under the age of 10 in the occupied Palestinian territory and destroyed by eleven months of war.
Vaccinations against this disease are administered on Saturday. But the campaign was only officially launched on Sunday in Gaza, where polio was eradicated 25 years ago. Some 1.2 million doses of the nOPV2 vaccine, which consists of two oral doses, have been sent by the UN. The second dose of vaccination must be taken four weeks after the first.
On Thursday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that Israel had received the order “humanitarian holidays” of three days each in the middle, then south and north of Gaza Gaza. Insanity “General Termination Reports” to make this vaccination campaign work, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that Israel “will give permission[it] only humane way ».
The Israeli authorities explained that vaccinations will be monitored from 6 am to 2 pm Sunday to Tuesday in the center of the region, where the first case of polio – in a 10-month-old child – was confirmed.
They also announced three days of immunity at the same time in the south then in the north of Gaza Strip, whose 2.4 million inhabitants are now almost entirely displaced.
In particular damaged roads and displaced populations, the UN has indicated that an additional day may be needed for each region.
A vaccination coverage of at least 90% is essential during each phase of the campaign to prevent the epidemic, according to the UN.
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