JUBA, Feb. 27 (Xinhua) -- South Sudan and United Nations agencies launched a nationwide polio campaign on Tuesday, aiming to vaccinate 3.1 million children.
According to the Ministry of Health, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), three variant poliovirus cases have been confirmed in three of South Sudan's 10 states: Western Equatoria, Central Equatoria and Upper Nile.
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