ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported the first case of poliovirus in 2023 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa over the weekend, the health ministry showed.
The virus was once present in 20 youngsters in Pakistan final 12 months and all of them had been from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a spokesperson for the ministry stated.
Talking to Xinhua, Almeena Iftikhar, a health employee from the province, stated there may be robust resistance towards the polio vaccine in some spaces of the province.
A door-to-door vaccination marketing campaign to manage the polio vaccine is lately underway within the nation, the place health employees are administering the vaccine to youngsters below 5 years.
According to the health ministry, the marketing campaign is being held in two levels, and the first segment sees over 17.41 million youngsters below the age of 5 be vaccinated from March 13 to March 17.
In the second one segment, over 4.12 million extra youngsters might be vaccinated from April 3 to April 7, the health ministry stated in a commentary.
