March 2021: Burundi runs polio catch-up campaign

Burundi launched a three-day catch-up polio vaccination campaign on March 17, aiming to immunize 675,962 children born between June 2016 and June 2018 (to reach those who were missed due to a global vaccine shortage). The campaign comes amid reports of polio cases in the eastern parts of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which neighbor Burundi. Anadolu Agency

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