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Africa to be declared polio-free

A child in Kano, northwest Nigeria receives the vaccine in 2017 [AFP]

The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to certify on Tuesday that the African continent is free from wild polio, four years after the last cases appeared in northeastern Nigeria.

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