Table 4:
Final Supervision of the Switch in the Region of the Americas
| No. of Countries | Total Warehouses in Country (n) |
No. of Warehouses where tOPV was Found | Total No. of Vaccination Services (n) |
No. of Vaccination Services where tOPV was Found | bOPV or IPV Availability | tOPV Disposed | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Cold Chain | Outside w/o Label | In Cold Chain | Outside w/o Label | bOPV (%) |
IPV (%) |
No. | Method | |||
| 36 | 6132 | 50 | 11 | 98253 | 220 | 31 | 95 | 93 | 5995247 | …a |
Abbreviations: bOPV, bivalent oral polio vaccine; IPV, inactivated polio vaccine; tOPV, trivalent oral polio vaccine.
aMost of the countries used incineration as a destruction method.