permanent transit teams

English translation: teams operating on a permanent basis, offering polio vaccination to people who are in transit

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English term or phrase:permanent transit teams
Selected answer:teams operating on a permanent basis, offering polio vaccination to people who are in transit
Entered by: Nadia Ayoub

11:20 Apr 18, 2017
English language (monolingual) [PRO]
Social Sciences - Medical (general)
English term or phrase: permanent transit teams
Polio teams are working at 17 border points to ensure that all children entering Afghanistan are immunized against polio.
More than 280 permanent transit teams vaccinate children who travel in and out of security-compromised areas and children travelling to other destinations to ensure that every child on the move receives two drops of the oral polio vaccine.
Nadia Ayoub
Egypt
Local time: 19:00
teams operating on a permanent basis, offering polio vaccination to people who are in transit
Explanation:
"transit" refers to people who may require polio vaccination but are in transit, i.e., they are travelling; they are people "coming to and from Poliovirus reservoir areas"; "people coming from or going to areas of concern"; they do not have a permanent place of residence, where they might be able to obtain polio vaccination http://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Opera...

"permanent" means that the vaccination teams are operating on a permanent basis

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Peter Nicholson (X)
Poland
Local time: 18:00
Grading comment
Many thanks!
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Peter Nicholson (X)


  

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teams operating on a permanent basis, offering polio vaccination to people who are in transit


Explanation:
"transit" refers to people who may require polio vaccination but are in transit, i.e., they are travelling; they are people "coming to and from Poliovirus reservoir areas"; "people coming from or going to areas of concern"; they do not have a permanent place of residence, where they might be able to obtain polio vaccination http://polioeradication.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Opera...

"permanent" means that the vaccination teams are operating on a permanent basis



Peter Nicholson (X)
Poland
Local time: 18:00
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 24
Grading comment
Many thanks!
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  José Patrício: Improving polio vaccination during supplementary campaigns at areas of mass transit in India. - http://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/14...
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agree  Yasutomo Kanazawa
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agree  philgoddard
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agree  Piyush Ojha
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agree  Tina Vonhof (X)
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agree  Yvonne Gallagher
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agree  Jörgen Slet
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