Cameron's new polio status was made public in a post on Twitter by Cameroon's Minister of Public Health, Manaouda Malachie, who congratulated the team that worked on obtaining this certification.

Discussions during this 25th session of the ARCC come-together are taking place at the Country Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Yaounde, where members of the Cameroon National Certification Committee have held closed-door discussions with ARCC members, via videoconferencing.

In a 40-minute presentation, Professor Tetanye Ekoe of the National Certification Committee detailed out the country's actions to eradicate polio.

Making allusion to the prevailing Covid-19 pandemic, Professor Tetanye Ekoe, in his presentation, highlighted that the Government of Cameroon has developed a national directives manual for vaccination and surveillance of VPDs adapted to the Covid-19 context, involving thorough investigation of all confirmed cases of cVDPV2 in the health districts of Kousséri, Betare-Oya, Bertoua, Garoua-Boulaï and Bangue.

Prof Tetanye also said given the political commitment at the highest level for the improvement and preservation of the health of the Cameroonian populations; considering the efforts made in the fight against polio and the results obtained, in particular with the absence of polio virus (PVS) in the country since 2014 and the key surveillance indicators which are globally up to certification standard, coupled with the stable vaccine coverage which stands at around 80 per cent, the organization of quality national and local vaccination days since 2016 and considering the country's capacity to face any possible epidemic of poliovirus, reinforced by the Head of State's commitment to the fight against Vaccine-Preventable Diseases, renewed in his speech to the nation on May 19, 2020, members of the National Certification Committee, respectfully requested ACCA to grant Cameroon the status of "country free of wild poliovirus".

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