DE Online Desk:
A new shipment of polio vaccines totalling 350,000 doses has arrived in Gaza, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.
It came as the vaccination campaign in the enclave continued amid a devastating Israeli war.
“An additional 350,000 doses of polio vaccines arrived in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening and have been stored in refrigerators at the Ministry of Health warehouses in Deir al-Balah,” Palestinian Health Minister Majed Abu Ramadan said in a statement.
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He said these measures were coordinated with the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
He added that with the arrival of “the second batch of vaccines to Gaza, the total number of doses received by the Strip is now around 1.6 million, sufficient to vaccinate all children from birth to 10 years old with two doses of the vaccine”.
