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A source at the Huthi-controlled health office in the capital Sana'a said the ministry had extended the measles immunization campaign until next Monday in the capital's secretariat after completing the campaign in the country. remaining provinces, Thursday, February 14.
The source, who works in a vaccination team and who requested anonymity, told the "New Arab" that the extension had occurred after not having reached the required percentage of vaccination in the secretariat of the capital ", where the response rate was only 30% per day.
The Yemeni "Saba" news agency under the control of the Houthis ", the vaccination teams of the Secretariat were able to reach the targeted children of the vaccination, 70% against the patients with measles and rubella during these five days, "pointing out that the number of children to whom doses of patients with measles and rubella over the past five days in the capital reached 977,000 and 210 children out of a total of 508,000.
In the same context, educational source at the Qutaiba bin Muslim Thaqafi school in Sanaa, some parents refused to vaccinate their children during this campaign.
The educational source of the "New Arab" said that "vaccination teams had to leave schools and go to neighborhoods to search for children and vaccination."
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