Polio vaccination in Gaza may resume on November 2, World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said, Paralel.Az reports citing TASS.

"Polio vaccination in northern Gaza is ready to resume tomorrow. We are assured of the necessary humanitarian pause in Gaza City to conduct the campaign," he wrote on the X social media platform. "Unfortunately, the area covered is substantially reduced compared to the first round of vaccination, which will leave some children unprotected and at higher risk of infection," the WHO chief noted.

"The WHO and UNICEF urge for the humanitarian pauses to be respected. However, what the children in northern Gaza and across the whole Strip really need is peace," he stressed.