ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported two new circumstances of polio in Sindh and Punjab as tally reached 5 in 2025, ARY Information reported.
The most recent circumstances, confirmed by the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program, had been detected in Qambar district in Sindh and Mandi Bahauddin district in Punjab. This brings the whole variety of polio circumstances in Pakistan to 5 since January 2025.
The most recent improvement comes as well being employees conclude a focused vaccination drive in high-risk areas later Friday. Earlier this month, authorities launched a weeklong nationwide anti-polio marketing campaign aiming to immunize 44.2 million kids beneath the age of 5.
Escorted by police, polio groups go door-to-door to manage the oral vaccine. For the reason that Nineteen Nineties, greater than 200 polio employees and the police assigned to guard them have been killed in assaults.
There have been 74 polio circumstances recorded in 2024, the earlier 12 months. Of them, one every got here from Punjab and Islamabad, whereas 27 got here from Balochistan, 22 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and 23 from Sindh.
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Based on authorities, the primary nationwide polio marketing campaign of 2025 was efficiently concluded, with 99% of the targets achieved throughout the nation.
The marketing campaign was carried out from February 3 to 9, 2025. Throughout this marketing campaign, greater than 45 million kids had been administered the polio vaccine.
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Polio is a paralyzing illness that has no treatment. A number of doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all kids beneath the age of 5 is important to supply kids excessive immunity in opposition to this horrible illness.
The Pakistan Polio Program conducts a number of mass vaccination drives in a 12 months, bringing the vaccine to kids at their doorsteps, whereas the Expanded Program on Immunization offers vaccinations in opposition to 12 childhood illness freed from cost at well being amenities.
It’s essential for fogeys to make sure vaccination for all their kids beneath the age of 5 to maintain them protected.