The World Health Organization (WHO) commended Nigeria for its prompt management of a new polio outbreak that occurred earlier this month in the African country’s Borno State. The commendation came during regional director Matshiduso Moeti’s address during the 66th session of the African Regional Committee Meeting in Ethiopia, where she applauded Nigeria’s Federal Government for its quick response to the outbreak and President Muhammadu Buhari for his directive to a government agency to release money budgeted for vaccines. She ended by pledging the commitment of WHO to halt polio’s resurgence in its tracks.

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