A total of 4,568,864 children are expected to be immunised in each round of the campaign in the participating regions.

Children under 5 to receive polio vaccine from September

Augustina Tawiah Junior News Aug - 21 - 2020 , 12:53

All children under five years old in 179 districts of eight regions in the country will from September 10 to 13, 2020 and October 8 to 11, 2020 be vaccinated against polio.

The regions where the immunisation exercise will take place are the Greater Accra, Central, Eastern, Western, Western North, Volta, Ashanti and the Upper West.

The Deputy Programme Manager of the Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EPI), Mr John Frederick Dadzie, who disclosed the above, explained that the exercise would follow what was started last year and was being conducted because of the detection of circulating vaccine derived type two polio virus (cVDPV2) in some children and also in environmental sewerage samples.

Mr Dadzie recounted that in July and August 2019, Ghana confirmed two events of cVDPV2 from environmental surveillance sites in Koblimagu in the Tamale metropolis in the Northern Region and Agbogbloshie in the Accra metropolis in the Greater Accra Regio