JAKARTA: Indonesia is planning to vaccinate some 5.2 million children in a single day to prevent the spread of polio health officials said, while the nation struggled yesterday to contain its first polio outbreak in a decade, diagnosing three more infants struck by the crippling virus in the province of West Java, bringing the total to five in a month.
The vaccination drive will be held at the end of the month and be concentrated in the three provinces closest to Girijaya, the village at the centre of the outbreak, about 120km south-east of here, said Dr Yus Harman, the health department official in charge of the programme.