European Region's 20th year of polio-free status confirmed – but there is no room for complacency - ISS-G20 Laboratorium Repository

he European Regional Commission for Certification of Poliomyelitis Eradication (RCC) confirmed during its 36th meeting on 19–20 October 2022 that the WHO European Region continues to be free of any endemic spread of wild poliovirus. 

This conclusion was based on a thorough review of reports from all 53 Member States of the Region for 2021 detailing polio immunization coverage, outbreak preparedness and response, surveillance sensitivity, and laboratory containment activities. 

“We can say based on the information we have reviewed that this Region remains wild poliovirus free – something for which we should all be proud. But we cannot be complacent. Whilst transmission of wild poliovirus goes on in other parts of the world, we remain at risk,” RCC Chair Professor David Salisbury explained.

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