Gaza - Ma'an - The first round of the polio vaccination campaign was launched today, Sunday, in the Gaza Strip. The United Nations announced, in a tweet on its X website, the launch of a mass immunization campaign against polio targeting about 640,000 Palestinian children under the age of ten. In turn, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) announced on Sunday the launch of a polio vaccination campaign in the central Gaza Strip governorate, which will extend to all areas of the Strip in the coming days. The agency said, via the "X" platform, that "the first phase of the polio vaccination campaign for those under the age of ten has been launched in the central areas of the Gaza Strip." She added: "The vaccination campaign is in a race against time to reach more than 600,000 children in the Strip in the coming days." "For the sake of the children of the region, it is time for a permanent ceasefire," she continued. UNRWA also published a map showing the places to go to in the central governorate to get vaccinations. Source: Maan News Agency
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