Philippines polio outbreak over: UN

Updated June 11 2021 - 11:55pm, first published 11:50pm
Thirty million doses of oral polio vaccine have been given to children across the Philippines.
Thirty million doses of oral polio vaccine have been given to children across the Philippines.

A polio outbreak in the Philippines has ended, according to the World Health Organisation and the United Nations Children's Fund, which praised government efforts to fight the disease despite the coronavirus pandemic.

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