Pakistan Begins Anti-Polio Drive After Virus Surge in 2019
- Vaccination campaign will be given security cover: official
- Pakistan’s anti-polio drive is synchronized with Afghanistan
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Pakistan’s health workers have begun a campaign to vaccinate 40 million children against the polio virus after the nation saw the worst surge of the crippling disease in the past five years.
Under the security cover of 80,000 forces, the anti-polio vaccine will be administered to under-five-year age children by 250,000 workers during the five-day nationwide drive, Rana Muhammad Safdar, national coordinator at Pakistan’s Polio Eradication Program said on Monday.