Starting on Sunday, the program will vaccinate around 640,000 youngsters throughout the Gaza Strip, according to senior WHO official Rik Peeperkorn.
It will be implemented in the central, southern, and northern regions of the strip in three phases. Fighting will stop for three days in a row between 06:00 and 15:00 local time during each stage.
The deal was reached a few days after UN representatives reported that Gaza had seen its first case of polio in 25 years, which left a 10-month-old infant largely paralyzed.
The new oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) has now been administered 1.26 million times.
More than 2,000 health and community outreach workers have received vaccination administration training.
UN spokeswoman in Gaza Louise Wateridge has demanded a ceasefire in order to ensure the safety of the immunization campaign.
She said on Friday on show, “We cannot vaccinate children under a sky full of bombs and strikes; we cannot vaccinate children who are fleeing for their lives.”
She clarified that any military actions during the period we are attempting to implement a vaccination program will impact our capacity to administer these shots to kids.
