GENEVA, Feb 19 — The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that a mass campaign to vaccinate children against polio in Gaza would resume on Saturday, with over half a million children targeted.

NEW YORK, Nov 2 — A third phase of the polio vaccination campaign in the northern Gaza Strip is set to resume on Saturday after being postponed over escalating violence, reported Xinhua.

GENEVA, Sept 13 — The first round of the polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip is nearing completion, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, with more than 552,000 children having received their first dose of the oral vaccine.

GAZA CITY, Sept 11 — An ongoing polio vaccination campaign has reached 82.5 per cent of targeted children in the war-torn Gaza Strip, the territory’s Health Ministry said today.

CAIRO, Sept 7 — Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, local medics said today, as Israeli forces battled Hamas-led militants in the territory.

GENEVA, Sept 1 — Health authorities in the Gaza Strip have confirmed the first case of polio in the Palestinian enclave in 25 years last month.

CAIRO/GAZA, Aug 31 — Israeli strikes on Saturday killed at least 48 people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian health authorities said, as clashes took place in central and southern areas of the enclave ahead of the planned start of a polio vaccination campaign.

GAZA CITY, Aug 30 — Palestine Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan announced today that a polio vaccination campaign for children under the age of 10 will begin in Gaza on Sunday.

CAIRO/GAZA, Aug 30 — Palestinians in Gaza were waiting yesterday to see if there would be a pause in fighting to allow a polio vaccination campaign to begin, as the conflict raged across the besieged enclave, killing at least 34 people.

KUALA LUMPUR, September 25 — Health Minister Khairy Jamaluddin has attributed the country’s success in controlling and preventing polio disease to the collaboration between various agencies.

PUTRAJAYA, Nov 19 — The administration of four doses of polio vaccine for infants is continuing at the government health facilities under the National Immunisation Programme during the movement control order (MCO) period, said Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Noor Hisham Abdullah yesterday.

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 24 — A total of 317 cases of Acute Flaccid Paralysis (AFP),  which is an acute symptom similar to polio virus, were reported in the country from January 1, 2019 until  October 16 this year.

KUALA LUMPUR, April 24 — The Ministry of Health (MOH) has highlighted that immunisation programmes at health facilities continue as usual and wants parents to adhere to the set immunisation schedules and appointments.

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 28 — Health Ministry has received 2.5 million doses of the monovalent oral polio vaccine type 2 from the World Health Organisation (WHO) as an additional vaccine to curb the spread of polio in Sabah.