Polio

Pakistan recorded its 73rd polio case of last year, as a sample collected in December 2024, categorised as part of last year's tally.

In preparation for the anti-polio campaign set to be launched on December 16, Section 144 has been imposed in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, for seven days, as reported by ARY News on Sunday.

According to NEOC, the National Reference Lab identified the latest Polio case involving a 20-month-old girl from Tank district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Notably, Dr Rik Peeperkorn, head of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) office for the West Bank and Gaza had announced that the polio vaccination campaign in Gaza would start on September 1.

As per reports the police constabulary truck was on Polio duty and was there for the security of a team of Polio vaccinators. A woman and a child are reportedly among the dead too. A police sub-inspector named Ibrahim is also among the deceased persons.

Team of polio vaccinators emerged unharmed from the attack but this is yet another setback to the polio vaccination drive in Pakistan

Pakistan and Afghanistan are the only 2 countries where polio hasn't yet been eradicated.

India on September 17, 2021, achieved a stunning feat of administering more than 2 crore COVID-19 vaccine doses in a single day

Pakistani radical fundamentalists and militants often target polio vaccination drives as they believe it is 'western conspiracy to sterilise children'.

Rahul Gandhi has done the BJP a favour, as usual when it comes to criticising the recordbreaking number of COVID vaccination.