The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) says it will begin a supplementary polio immunisation campaign from July 29 to Aug. 11, to sustain the poliovirus-free status in the FCT and Nigeria.

Mr Malan Haruna, acting Secretary of the Health and Human Services Secretariat, FCTA made this known while addressing a news conference in Abuja.

The news conference was organised in collaboration with the World Health Organisation (WHO).

Haruna recalled that Nigeria has been certified free of the Wild Polio Virus since Aug. 25, 2020, by the WHO, adding, however, that a strain of the virus still exists.

According to him, the strain, if left unattended to, can risk the resurfacing of polio incidence in the country.

“This is why this supplemental exercise of polio immunisation is crucial to curb the virus from spreading.”

He said that immunisation officers would be going from house to house, marketplaces, worship centres, schools, and other public places to immunise all children from age zero to 59 months.

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