80 000 health workers took part in the polio campaign, vaccinating children at home or in one of 5000 vaccination sites across the countryA National Immunization Days (NID) campaign was successfully conducted in Egypt on 21-24 April 2012. The campaign, which was supported by communities and political leaders in all governorates of Egypt, aimed to reach every child and achieve vaccination of more than 95% of targeted children at district level. The reported number of children vaccinated was 13 078 389 children under 5 years. The national administrative coverage was 103.4%, including 2 928 379 children under 1 year (22.4%) nationally. All governorates achieved more than 99% coverage. About 15 million doses of of trivalent oral poliovaccine (tOPV) were used at an average rate of 17 children vaccinated per vaccine vial.
On a daily basis, meetings were conducted in all governorates to review the campaign activities and immediate action taken to resolve any problems related to the activities.