March 1 - 2021 KHARTOUM
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According to the latest official figures released on Saturday, Sudan’s Ministry of Health announced the registration of two deaths, 22 new cases of Coronavirus, and 51 recoveries. In its latest epidemiological report the ministry lists the that the cases were recorded only in the states of Khartoum and El Gezira.
This brings the total number of cases in Sudan since the outbreak of the pandemic to 28,408, and 1,890 deaths, while recoveries reached 22,975.
In El Gezira state on Sunday, eight new positive cases were recorded and four deaths.
The cumulative report of the Coronavirus pandemic shows the second wave for the period from October 22, 2020 AD until February 28, 2021 AD, about 2,300 suspected cases of Coronavirus, including 1035 positive cases, 226 deaths, 764 cases recovered, 27 positive cases in home quarantine, and 19 patients in isolation.
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South Sudan s Ministry of Health and partners are rolling out the second round of the national polio vaccination campaign targeting over 2.8 million children aged 0 - 59 months. The campaign covers 74 counties, with vaccinators going from house to house to vaccinate children, while adhering to COVID-19 protocols.
The World Health Organization declared a polio outbreak in September last year and reported that the disease spread to 17 counties in all the states of South Sudan, with 39 cases of vaccine-derived polio confirmed.