Pakistan’s poliovirus tally has reached 65 after another child was diagnosed with the crippling virus in the ongoing year.
Officials say a one-and-a-half-year-old child has been affected in Balochistan’s Killa Abdullah district pushing the provincial cases to 27 — the highest among provinces.
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Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme explains that polio is a “paralysing” disease with “no cure” and “the completion of the routine vaccination for all children under the age of five” just provides them “high immunity against this terrible disease”.
Other than Balochistan, as many as 18 cases have been reported in Sindh this year which is followed by one case each in Islamabad and Punjab.
The country has launched multiple vaccination drives including the one that kicked off last week which aims at inoculating about 44 million children across the country.
