Polio Vaccination Campaign Begins in Gaza After First Case in 25 Years

• A polio vaccination campaign has started in Gaza following the first confirmed case of the disease in decades, as announced by the WHO.
• The campaign aims to vaccinate over 640,000 children under the age of 10, with 1.26 million doses already delivered and 400,000 more on the way.
• The WHO has coordinated three-day 'humanitarian pauses' in the fighting to facilitate the vaccination effort.
• Local health officials are beginning the campaign in central Gaza and plan to extend it northward and southward.
• The first polio case in 25 years was detected in a 10-month-old child, highlighting the urgent need for widespread vaccination amid ongoing conflict.

Source: DW