{"id":236408,"date":"2026-06-15T17:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-khomas-omaheke-polio-vaccination-campaigns-end\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T17:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T15:43:24","slug":"namibia-khomas-omaheke-polio-vaccination-campaigns-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-khomas-omaheke-polio-vaccination-campaigns-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Khomas, Omaheke Polio Vaccination Campaigns End"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\"><em>The Ministry of Health and Social Services&#8217; targeted polio vaccination campaign in the Khomas and Omaheke regions concluded on Saturday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The campaign, which started on Monday, was launched after traces of the polio virus type 2 were detected in sewage samples in Windhoek and Gobabis recently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">In response to the findings, the ministry rolled out a targeted vaccination campaign to protect children from the effects of polio.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The same virus was detected at Rundu in the Kavango East region late last&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606150541.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Health and Social Services&#8217; targeted polio vaccination campaign in the Khomas and Omaheke regions concluded on Saturday. The campaign, which started on Monday, was launched after traces of the polio virus type 2 were detected in sewage samples in Windhoek and Gobabis recently. In response to the findings, the ministry rolled out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":236409,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,11972,14927,4706,724,257,14239,5799,254,14083],"class_list":["post-236408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-campaigns","tag-khomas","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-omaheke","tag-polio","tag-south-africa-today","tag-vaccination"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/236409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}