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Chad: Quick Alerts – 13 November 2020 – Chad – ReliefWeb
English Situation Report on Chad about Food and Nutrition, Health, Epidemic, Flood and more; published on 13 Nov 2020 by OCHA
HEALTH SITUATION
Polio vaccination campaigns to resume in November. An outbreak of vaccine-derived polio (cVDPV2) was recorded in October 2019. Since then, a total of 83 cases due to low vaccination coverage have been recorded. The wild poliovirus was declared eradicated in Chad in June 2016, the current cases are vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2. 95 per cent of cases are children under five years and 90 per cent have not been vaccinated. A first vaccination response was provided in Mandelia (November…
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