CAIRO – 10 October 2022: Egypt’s Ministry of Health and Population Said, Monday that the nationwide vaccination campaign against polio for Egyptian and non-Egyptian children under five years of age against Polio in Cairo and Giza, will continue for five days in a row.
The Ministry said that vaccination in available in health offices, medical centers, large squares and streets, next to mosques, churches, clubs and in markets.
On Sunday, Spokesman for the Ministry of Health and Population Hossam Abdel Ghaffar refuted reports claiming that cases of polio have been discovered in governorates, water or sewage channels.
The voice message being circulated is baseless, Abdel Ghaffar said in a statement.
The last case of polio was recorded in Egypt in 2004, while the World Health Organization declared Egypt free of the disease in 2006, he added.
Egypt has a strong system of basic vaccinations, surveillance and investigation of epidemic diseases, which works effectively in the early detection and monitoring of any epidemics or diseases, the spokesman.
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