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The World Health Organization announces that its polio vaccination campaign in the Gaza Strip has surpassed its intended target of 156,500 projected vaccinations within two days.
2024-09-3

Iraq receives 50,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccines donated by China as the country officially begins its vaccination campaign.
2021-03-2

Lebanon begins a vaccination campaign against COVID-19, a day after the first 28,500 doses of the Pfizer–BioNTech vaccine arrived in the country. A doctor at Rafik Hariri University Hospital in Beirut is the first person to be vaccinated.
2021-02-14

United States Forces Korea begins a vaccination programme against COVID-19 using the Moderna vaccine. Healthcare providers and first responders are among those who will initially receive the vaccine.
2020-12-29

The Africa Regional Certification Commission announces that they have declared Africa free of polio.
2020-08-25

Gunmen kill two police officers escorting a polio vaccination team in Lower Dir District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan.
2019-12-18

Nine people are killed and dozens wounded in two separate bomb and gun attacks in north west Pakistan.
2014-04-22

Militants in northwestern Pakistan kill nine male family members of a slain leader of a pro-government militia in an attack on the family's house outside the city of Peshawar.
2014-02-12

Gunmen kill six health workers engaged in a polio vaccination drive in Pakistan, highlighting resistance to a program opposed by the Taliban.
2012-12-18

Ghulam Nabi Azad, India's Minister of Health and Family Welfare, reports that the country has almost entirely eradicated polio through a vaccination program which immunises over 170 million children every year. No new polio cases have been reported in India for over nine months.
2011-10-24