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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Beaumont

UN’s Gaza polio vaccination campaign reaches 189,000 children in first phase

A child is vaccinated within the polio vaccination campaign
The polio vaccination campaign aims to protect 640,000 children in Gaza from an outbreak of the disease. Photograph: Anadolu/Getty Images

The United Nations children’s agency has said that a polio vaccination campaign to inoculate more than 640,000 children in Gaza is surpassing expectations at the end of the first phase of the programme.

Describing the campaign as a “rare bright spot” in almost 11 months of war, Unicef said that 189,000 children had been reached so far as more than 500 teams were deployed across central Gaza this week.

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