Polio: 795,437 children in Sabah vaccinated
Published on: Saturday, August 08, 2020
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Kota Kinabalu: A total of 795,437 or 93.22 per cent of children aged 13 and below in Sabah have received the first dose of bivalent Oral Polio Vaccine (bOPV) through the Sabah Polio Immunisation Campaign (KIPS) as of last Wednesday since the campaign began in December last year.Sabah Health Department (JKNS) Director Datuk Dr Christina Rundi (pic) said the figure is an increase of 0.94 per cent or 7,406 children who received the vaccine within one week.
“As for the second dose of bOPV, 730,807 children had received the vaccine as of last Wednesday, which covered 85.65 per cent of children aged 13 and below in Sabah,” she said in a statement Friday.
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