ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has reported its first polio case of the year 2023 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s (KP) Bannu district, health officials said on Friday.
According to a spokesman for National Ministry for Health, the poliovirus was found in a child from Bannu district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
“In the outgoing year 2022, as many as 20 cases of poliovirus were reported across the country.
Meanwhile, a five-day anti-polio vaccination campaign to immunize more than 21.54 million young children was already in progress in Punjab and Sindh.
Due to concurrent activity with the seventh national census, the immunization campaign was conducted in two phases.
Around seventeen and four million children will receive vaccinations in the first phase, which will take place in thirteen districts in Punjab, sixteen districts in Sindh, and Islamabad.
The second phase will be started from third of next month to vaccinate more than 4.12 million children in twelve districts of Balochistan and 26 districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
