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Indonesia orders mass vaccinations after polio outbreak

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A mass immunisation drive for polio is being carried out in Indonesia after 11 cases have been detected in East Java. Polio has been eradicated in Australia since 2000, and Indonesia was declared polio-free by the WHO in 2014.
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