By Pakistan is no stranger to fighting battles against health emergencies; it has danced an arduous and painfully slow dance with the menace of polio. And now it finds itself, like the rest of.
‘Vaccination only way to fight polio’
Islamabad
April 4, 2021
Islamabad: German ambassador Bernhard Schlagheck has hailed the five-day anti-polio campaign in the country and advocated vaccination as the only solution to the crippling disease.
The government carried out a drive in all 156 districts of the country to administer anti-polio drops to over 40 million children under the age of five amid challenges posed by the intensifying third wave of coronavirus.
Around 285,000 frontline workers participated in it following COVID-19 safety protocols. Happy to see anti-polio drive resuming across Pakistan! Vaccination is the only means to end polio in the country, the German envoy said in a tweet.
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Pakistan Polio Update, January 2021
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WPV1 + cVDPV2 Cases:
Every month, surveillance system report, investigate and confirm poliovirus cases. In January, the first case of WPV1 of the year has been confirmed in a child from Balochistan. The geographical representation of this case is as below as below:
Balochistan: Killa Abdullah (1)
The surveillance system also confirmed emergence of two cVPDV2 cases in January 2021. Of the two cases, one is from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the other one is from Balochistan. The geographical representation of these cases is as below as below:
Balochistan: Killa Saifullah ()
Campaigns in January 2021:
Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme launched a five-day National Immunization Days (NIDs) campaign from 11-15 January 2021. During the campaign, the polio teams were able to vaccinate 39.6 million children aged under 5 years, all across Pakistan. A supplementary dose of Vitamin A was also administered to more than 36 million children aged 6 to
• NCOC reports 1,340 new cases, 36 deaths
ISLAMABAD: With 504,500 doses of Covid-19 vaccine having been dispatched to the federating units, Pakistan is expected to receive another 5.6 million vaccines by the end of March.
As so far only 72,882 frontline healthcare workers have got themselves vaccinated in the country, the government has decided to start registering general health professionals, too, from Monday (Feb 22) for the vaccination programme. The National Command and Operation Centre (NCOC) on Saturday announced that general healthcare workers could register themselves on www.covid.gov.pk/vaccine.
Also, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan announced the second phase of Covid vaccination. In a tweet, the PM’s aide said: “Pak Covid-19 vaccination, next phase now that we have expected arrival of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in early March, all those 60 years of age and older are now requested to begin registration. Send CNIC as SMS t