polio virus

APP Islamabad: Health officials on Friday confirmed the presence of polio-virus in environmental samples from Quetta and Karachi Kemari. According to officials of the Ministry of Health, so far, polio virus has been confirmed in…

News Desk Islamabad: Health Caretaker Minister Dr Nadeem Jan informed that 43 positive environmental samples have been reported in the country which is very worrying. Poliovirus has been detected in the environmental samples of four…

News Desk Islamabad: Caretaker Prime Minister Anwaar-ul-Haq Kakar directed the concerned authorities to engage religious scholars, teachers, parents and all stakeholders to play a key role in the complete eradication of the polio virus…

News Desk Islamabad: Two sewage samples from Peshawar and Pishin districts have tested positive for wild poliovirus (WPV1). According to the notification issued by Pakistan Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health, WPV1…

News Desk Lahore: The polio virus has been confirmed in environmental samples collected from the Multan Road area Lahore which is the fourth case of wild poliovirus in Lahore this year, according to health officials. Out of the 4…

News Desk Islamabad:  Wild poliovirus has been detected in a sewage sample from the Hangu district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province. The Pakistan Polio Laboratory at the National Institute of Health informed us that wild poliovirus type…

News Desk Islamabad: Wild poliovirus has been detected in sewage samples (environmental samples) from the Naray Khuwar site in Peshawar and in another collected from the Civil Hospital-Jani Chowk site in Hangu districts in…

News Desk DI KHAN/ TANK: A five-day anti-polio vaccination campaign was kicked off on Monday to administer polio vaccine to about 450,972 children aged up to five years in DI Khan and Tank districts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, health…

APP Peshawar: Nearly 91,000 children under the age of five in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa missed polio doses during the seven-day police immunisation blitz that began on January 16 in the province, according to a health department report. The…

APP DI Khan: Five police officers who had been assigned to guard polio workers sustained injuries when unidentified assailants targeted them in Dera Ismail Khan’s Musazai neighbourhood on Thursday. The police chief reported that six…