Gaza – Ma’an – The World Health Organization announced on Wednesday that it will send more than one million polio vaccines to the Gaza Strip, where the virus was discovered in sewage water.

“We plan to start the first round of polio vaccination in Gaza on August 17,” said WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.

He continued: We face a huge logistical challenge to ensure the distribution of 1.2 million doses of polio vaccination in the Strip.

Source: Maan News Agency