The independent Africa Regional Certification Commission for Polio Eradication of the organisation officially declared the region free of the virus during a virtual session of the 70th WHO regional c
ommittee for Africa.The last case of wild polio virus in the region was detected in 2016 in Nigeria. Since 1996, polio eradication efforts have prevented up to 1.8 million children from crippling, life-long paralysis and saved approximately 180 000 lives, according to WHO.
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