Tanzania gears up for second round of mass polio vaccination end of April

Polio vaccine.

A child receives polio immunisation in Nairobi on May 26, 2021. Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique will join Malawi in the second round of a regional mass polio vaccination for children under five years beginning end of April. PHOTO | LUCY WANJIRU | NMG

Tanzania, Zambia and Mozambique will join Malawi in the second round of a regional mass polio vaccination for children under five years beginning end of April.

Dr Saumya Anand, Unicef’s eastern and southern Africa regional coordinator for polio, told The EastAfrican last week that the trans-border vaccination will start on April 21.