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The Federal Government is expected to
roll out emergency polio vaccinations starting late August after reporting two
new cases of the disease.
The information came from the UNICEF
yesterday
The new polio cases represent a
major health setback for Nigeria, which was on track to be certified free of
the virus next year, and highlights the difficulty of providing basic health
services to people in the impoverished northeast region ravaged by Boko Haram
insurgents.
The Nigerian government has “moved
into emergency outbreak response mode”, UNICEF spokesperson Priyanka Khanna
said in a statement. “Planning for a large scale campaign is in place,” Khanna
said,
“The first campaign will start on 27
August, targeting 1.3 million children. Subsequently two further rounds will be
conducted, at two-to-three week intervals, reaching four-to-five million
children.”
Vaccination campaigns are also being
planned in neighbouring countries with a focus on the Lake Chad region and
northern Cameroon, Khanna added.
The campaign will start in Nigeria’s northeast
state of Borno, where the Nigerian government reported Thursday that two
children had been paralysed by the disease.
Polio is a highly infectious viral disease
that mainly affects young children and can result in permanent paralysis,
according to WHO.
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