CM Sindh launches seven-day anti-polio drive in Karachi

KARACHI: Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has launched a seven-day anti-polio drive in Baldia town.

Murad Ali Shah in December last year, launched an anti-polio drive at the Janat Gul Hospital in the Gadap Town area.

During the campaign, more than 2.3 million children in Karachi and nine million children in other parts of the province, under the age of five years were administered polio vaccine. 

An anti-polio drive in Punjab, Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa kicked off in a bid to curb rising cases across the country.

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Poliovirus, which was at the brink of eradication in Pakistan, has surfaced again, with at least 100 cases that exclude vaccine-derived cases being reported across the country.