Pakistan launches new anti-polio drive amid spike in cases
The Hindu
The newest drive was aimed at Islamabad and in the high-risk districts in eastern Punjab and southwestern Baluchistan province.
Pakistani authorities launched a new nationwide anti-polio drive on Monday amid a spike in new cases among children, health officials said.
It is the sixth such campaign this year and will last for five days, aiming to inoculate children under the age of 5 in high-risk areas.
The newest drive was aimed at Islamabad and in the high-risk districts in eastern Punjab and southwestern Baluchistan province.
A similar campaign will be launched in the northwest in the first week of December.
Pakistan regularly launches polio campaigns despite attacks on workers and police assigned to inoculation drives.
Militants falsely claim the vaccination campaigns are a Western conspiracy to sterilise children.
Since April, Pakistan has registered 20 new polio cases and the outbreak has been seen as a blow to the efforts to eradicate the disease, which can cause severe paralysis in children.
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