Officials report case of polio in Gaza as UN appeals for ceasefire to roll out vaccines

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Antonio Guterres says Gaza is in "humanitarian freefall" and calls for pause in fighting so aid agencies can deliver 1.6 million doses of the nOPV2 polio vaccine to the strip.

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00:00Palestinian health officials have reported the first case of polio in Gaza in an unvaccinated

00:0710-month-old child in the city of Deir al-Bala.

00:11After discovering the child's symptoms, tests were conducted in Jordan's capital, Amman,

00:16and the case was confirmed to be polio.

00:19It's the first case of the disease in at least 25 years in the coastal enclave, which has

00:24seen health and sanitation facilities devastated by the Israel-Hamas war.

00:31On Friday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for seven-day pauses in fighting to

00:37allow agencies to roll out a vaccination campaign across the Strip.

00:42Two rounds of polio vaccinations are expected to be launched at the end of August and September

00:47across Gaza in a bid to prevent the spread of the disease.

00:52Over 1.6 million vaccine doses will be delivered to Gaza and vaccinations will be administered

00:57by 708 teams across the Strip.

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