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Polio this week as of 09 December 2020

  • Aidan O’Leary appointed new WHO polio eradication director – Mr Aidan O’Leary will assume the responsibilities of Director for Polio Eradication at WHO, effective1 January 2021. Mr O’Leary will succeed Mr Michel Zaffran, who will enter a well-deserved retirement end-February 2021.  Mr O’Leary is from Ireland and is currently Head of Office in Yemen for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). He has served as the Chief of Polio Eradication in Pakistan for UNICEF and spent three years working in Afghanistan (between 2011 and 2014) as Head of Office, OCHA.  He has extensive experience in emergency settings, including in Iraq and Syria, where he also held the position of Head of Office for OCHA.
  • Summary of new WPV and cVDPV viruses this week (AFP cases and ES positives):
      • Pakistan: five WPV1 positive environmental samples, six cVDPV2 cases and eight cVDPV2 positive environmental samples
      • Central African Republic: one cVDPV2 case
      • Chad: nine cVDPV2 cases
      • Somalia: one cVDPV2 case

See country sections below for more details.

Weekly country updates as of 09 December 2020

  • No wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case was reported this week. There have been 56 WPV1 cases reported in 2020 so far while the total number of cases reported in 2019 remains 29.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 160 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 so far.
  • 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 have been 82 WPV1 cases reported in 2020 so far while the total number of cases reported in 2019 cases remains 147.
  • Five WPV1 positive environmental samples were reported; one each in Sindh, Punjab and Islamabad and two in Balochistan.
  • Six cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) were reported: three in Sindh, one in Punjab and two in Balochistan. There are 110 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 so far while the 2019 case count remains 22.
  • Eight cVDPV2 positive environmental samples were reported; seven in Sindh and one in Balochistan.
  • 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 have been three cases reported in 2020 so far. The total number of 2019 cases remain 130. These cases are from several outbreaks which occurred in 2019.
  • Read our Angola country pagefor more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There have been two cases reported in 2020 while the number of 2019 cases remain eight. These cases are all linked to the Jigawa outbreak in Nigeria.
  • The risk of further cVDPV2 spread across West Africa remains high.
  • Read our Benin country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 49 cVDPV2 cases in the country. Burkina Faso 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 are seven cases reported in 2020 so far.
  • Read our Cameroon country page for more information.
  • One case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported in the Région Sanitaire 5 province. There are four cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 so far and 21 cases in 2019 from several outbreaks.
  • Read our Central African Republic country page for more information.
  • Nine cases of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) were reported; one each in N’Djamena, Logone Occidental and Kanem and six in Logone Oriental. There are 89 cVDPV2 cases from three different outbreaks. There were 11 cases reported in 2019.
  • The risk of further cVDPV2 spread across the Lake Chad subregion remains high.
  • Read our Chad country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There is one case in the country.
  • Read our Congo country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 68 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 so far.
  • Read our Côte d’Ivoire country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There have been 68 cases reported in 2020, while the 2019 case count remains 88.
  • Read our Democratic Republic of the Congo country pagefor more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. The total number of cVDPV2 cases reported is 35.
  • Read our Ethiopia country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. So far, there have been 12 cases reported in 2020, while the total number of 2019 cases remains 18.
  • The risk of further cVDPV2 spread across West Africa remains high.
  • Read our Ghana country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 29 cVDPV2 cases in the country
  • Read our Guinea country page for more information.
  • No circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) case was reported this week. There has been one case in 2020 so far. The total number of cases reported in 2019 remains three.
  • Read our Malaysia country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 26 cases reported in the country in 2020 so far.
  • Read our Mali country page country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are eight cVDPV2 cases reported in the country so far.
  • Read our Niger country page for more information.

 

  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are four cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 and 18 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2019.
  • Read our Nigeria country page for more information.
  • No cVDPV2 case was reported this week. The total number of cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 remains one and 12 in 2019..
  • No cVDPV1 case was reported this week. There are two cVDPV1 cases in the country from 2019.
  • Read our Philippines country page for more information.
  • One case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported in Baidoa. There have been 13 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 so far and 3 cases were reported in 2019.
  • Read our Somalia country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 22 cVDPV2 cases in the country, all linked to the ongoing outbreak in Chad.
  • Read our South Sudan country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are 46 cVDPV2 cases reported in 2020 so far. The initial viruses were linked to the ongoing outbreak in Chad followed by local transmission.
  • Read our Sudan country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. There are nine cases reported in 2020 while the total number of cVDPV2 cases reported in 2019 remains eight.
  • Read our Togo country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 1 (cVDPV1) was reported this week. There are 19 cVDPV1 cases reported in the country so far.
  • Read our Yemen country page for more information.
  • No case of circulating vaccine-derived poliovirus type 2 (cVDPV2) was reported this week. The total number of cVDPV2 cases reported in 2019 remains two.
  • Read our Zambia country page for more information.