Botswana kicked off a nationwide vaccination campaign against polio on February 23, targeting all children age 7 and under. The phased campaign employing novel oral polio vaccine (nOPV2) was originally slated to run until February 26, but the MoH announced a three-day mop-up campaign on February 27, saying it would continue until March 1. A second round is scheduled for March 30-April 2. The campaign is responding to a case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 that was detected through environmental surveillance. Zawya; Ministry of Health
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