Islamabad, March 5 (IANS) Pakistan on Thursday reported its first wild polio virus case of 2026 in a four-year-old child from Bello Union Council in Sujawal district of Sindh province, local media reported. According to Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication (NEOC), the case was detected through the polio surveillance network and the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH), Islamabad confirmed it, Pakistan’s l…
Latest Polio campaign News & Updates
New Delhi, Feb 12 (IANS) Nearly one million children were missed and more than 53,000 families refused vaccination during Pakistan’s latest nationwide polio campaign, raising serious concerns about the effectiveness of eradication efforts, a report has said.While health officials report that over 44 million children were vaccinated and overall coverage reached 98 per cent, experts warn that even a small gap is dangerous in a country that still carries the poliovirus, according to Dawn report.A…