Indonesia plans to carry out the third round of massive anti-polio vaccination on Nov. 27, as the crippling virus has spread into two new areas in the country, Health Minister Siti Fadilah Supari said Tuesday.

The spread of the virus slowed down after the country conducted two round vaccinations in August and September, but the outbreak has not stop yet, the World Health Organization officer Bardan Jung Rana said in a joint press conference.

"We have decided to conduct the third round of immunization tentatively on November 27," the minister said, adding that the funds have not been collected now.

The virus has seriously attacked Indonesia, hitting some 270 youngsters in seven months.

The minister said that the virus has spread to the provinces of Aceh and North Sumatra since the second round of vaccination.

Chief of the Health and Nutrition Unit of the United Nations Children's Fund David Hipgrave said that international donors support the third round of the vaccination.

Supari said that Indonesia will regularly conducted vaccination in 2006 and aims to be free from Polio virus in 2008.

Indonesia has vaccinated over 22 million youngsters in August and September.

The waterborne polio virus reemerged in Indonesia in March, a decade after it was believed to have been eradicated in the country.

Neighboring countries in Southeast Asia have also been conducting immunization programs.

Source: Xinhua