The United Nations asked for breaks in the fighting in Gaza for seven days to vaccinate more than 640,000 children against polio, which has been discovered in the territory’s wastewater.
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UN agencies want to provide novel oral polio vaccine type 2 (nOPV2) to children under 10 starting later this month, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. “Without the humanitarian pauses, the delivery of the campaign will not be possible”, it added.