{"id":52356,"date":"2021-10-25T19:26:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:26:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/adamawa-announces-4-polio-cases"},"modified":"2021-10-25T19:54:50","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:54:50","slug":"adamawa-announces-4-polio-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/adamawa-announces-4-polio-cases","title":{"rendered":"Adamawa announces 4 polio cases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Adamawa State Government has announced four new cases of Polio virus in the state.<\/p>\n<p>The Executive Chairman of Adamawa State Primary Healthcare Development Agency (ADPHCDA), Dr. Sulaiman Bashir, made the announcement at a news briefing in the state capital, Yola, to mark the 2021 World Polio Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough, 99.9 per cent of Polio has been wiped out with the oral polio vaccine, in rare cases when enough children are not reached, other forms of the virus will continue to circulate,\u201d Dr Bashir said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that though Nigeria was certified a wild polio-free nation on August 25, 2020, the state recently recorded four new cases.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSadly, four cases of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus type 2 ( CVDPV) were reported in Adamawa, One case in Gombi and 3 cases in Yola South Local Government Area,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Our correspondent reports that the state first announced in August this year that it had noted one case of the polio virus.<\/p>\n<p>Bashir said during the Monday briefing that to overcome the problem of polio virus spread, two rounds of polio vaccination campaign which included outbreak response with the NOPV2 vaccine were conducted in the state.<\/p>\n<p>He reaffirmed his agency\u2019s commitment to continue working with stakeholders at all levels to ensure vaccination of every child.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the four fresh cases in Adamawa, the state coordinator of the World Health Organisation (WHO), Dr Semeeh Omoleke, said, \u201cNigeria is currently facing outbreaks of Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus and four cases were confirmed in Adamawa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\">Nigeria<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. 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