This week, the GPEI got the greenlight to resume house-to-house vaccination campaigns in Afghanistan which had been halted for over three years. Starting November 8, the campaigns will target over 3.3 million children in parts of the country that were previously inaccessible. Read more on this positive development.
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Summary of new WPV and cVDPV this week (AFP cases and ES positives)
– Nigeria: 37 cVDPV2 cases and 19 cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
– Senegal: one cVDPV2 case
– Somalia: one cVDPD2 case
No wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was reported this week. There is one case reported in 2021 while the total number of 2020 cases remains at 56.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. The number of 2021 cases remains 43. There were 308 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020.
Read the latest polio snapshot from Afghanistan to see information on cases, surveillance and vaccination campaigns.
No wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was reported this week. There is one case reported in 2021. The total number of 2020 cases remains at 84.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. The number of 2021 cases remains at eight. There were 135 cases reported in 2020.
Read the latest polio snapshot from Pakistan to see information on cases, surveillance and vaccination campaigns.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are two cases reported in 2021 so far. There were three cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020. These cases are all linked to the Jigawa outbreak in Nigeria.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are two cases reported in 2021 so far. The number of 2020 cases remains at 65. The country is affected by different outbreaks, one linked to the Jigawa outbreak in Nigeria and one to the Savanes outbreak in Togo.
Read our Burkina Faso country page for more information.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There were 99 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 from three different outbreaks.
The risk of further cVDPV2 spread across the Lake Chad sub-region remains high.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are two cases reported in 2021. There were two cases reported in 2020.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 10 cases reported in 2021 so far. The total number of 2020 cases remains at 81.
No cVDPV2 positive environmental sample was reported this week. There are 10 positive samples reported in 2021. There was one positive sample reported in 2020.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are nine cases reported in 2021 so far. The total number of 2020 cases remains at 36.
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No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are six cases in 2021 so far. The total number of 2020 cases remains at 44.
Read our Guinea country page for more information.
No cVDPV2 positive environmental sample was reported this week. There was one cVDPV2 positive environmental sample reported in 2020 and one in 2021. The virus is linked to the Banadir outbreak in Somalia.
Read our Kenya country page country page for more information.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) was reported this week. The number of 2021 cases remains at nine. There were two cases reported in 2020.
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37 cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) were reported; 14 in Kebbi, five in Nasarawa, three each in Kaduna, Jigawa and Kano, two in Borno, and one each in Bauchi, Katsina, Kwara, Sokoto, Taraba and Zamfara. There are now 224 cases reported in 2021. There were eight cases reported in 2020.
19 cVDPV2 positive environmental samples were reported; five in Borno, five in Kano,two each in Bauchi, Gombe, Jigawa and Yobe, and one in Nasarawa.
Read our Nigeria country page for more information.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are five cases in 2021 while the number of 2020 cases remains at 10.
One case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported in middle Juba making it the first in 2021. There were 14 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020.
Read our Somalia country page for more information.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 59 cVDPV2 cases in the country; 9 in 2021 and 50 in 2020.
Read our South Sudan country page for more information.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. The number of 2020 cases remains at 58. The initial viruses were linked to the ongoing outbreak in Chad followed by local transmission.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 32 cases reported in 2021 so far. There was one case reported in 2020.
Read our Tajikistan country page for more information.
No cVDPV2 positive environmental sample was reported this week. There is one positive sample linked to the N’Djamena outbreak in Chad reported in 2021.
Read our Uganda country page for more information.
No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) was reported this week. There are three cases reported in 2021 so far and a total of 35 altogether.
