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CAIRO - 28 March 2020: Health Ministry Undersecretary in Alexandria Saeeed Saq'an said in a Sunday statement that the national anti-polio vaccination campaign kicked off with the participation of 1,889 medics.
He said the four-day campaign targets Egyptian and non-Egyptian children until the age of 5.
A total of 835,000 Egyptian and 1,696 non-Egyptian children will be vaccinated in Alexandria Governorate under the current national campaign.
The first phase of the campaign last month managed to reach more than 98 percent of the targeted children, according to official data, including more than 17,000 non-Egyptian children.
The annual vaccination program aims to raise community immunity against the disease, and acts as a pre-emptive step in conjunction with polio outbreaks in a number of neighboring countries in the Eastern Mediterranean Region.
Vaccination will be done through fixed teams in thousands of health offices and units, and medical centers, in addition to mobile teams in major squares and train and subway stations.
There will also be vaccination points next to mosques, churches, clubs, markets and bus and car stops.
Egypt joined the list in 2006 with the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF declaring that it was polio-free after the last case was discovered in 2004.
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