Situation update:
- Egypt completed its OBRA on 6 August 2023 with a recommendation for closure after the OBRA team found no evidence of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 of the outbreak emergence CHA-DJI-1 and EGY-QEN-1.
- Separately, advance notification has been received of VDPV2 novel in environmental and human samples in North Sinai and Ismailia governorates in Egypt. Investigation is ongoing, however, due to the urgency of this high-risk event, the Ministry of Health has already implemented an nOPV2 campaign in the affected areas.
- In Yemen, there have been two new cases since the last sitrep: one cVDPV2 from Hodeidah (date of onset: 18 April 2023) and a VDPV2 case has been confirmed in a child with AFP in Taiz governorate (date of onset: 9 May 2023). Following these and the three ES positives in Sana’a, the Ministry of Public Health and Population, with support from WHO, is enhancing surveillance to ensure no cases are being missed.
- Somalia’s third Supplementary National Immunization Days (SNID) from 20-23 July 2023 was carried out in 80 of 81 districts targeted in the southern and central areas of Somalia nOPV2. Following updated mapping of inaccessibility status by settlement/village, an estimated 98,429 under-fives are currently inaccessible, nation-wide.
- Circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (VDPV2) isolates, 2023 to date:
Djibouti: 0 AFP; 0 ES
Egypt: 1 AFP; 2 ES
Somalia: 2 AFP; 4 ES
Sudan: 0 AFP; 0 ES
Yemen: 1 AFP; 3 ES
2023
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2022
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