poliovirus

APP Islamabad: Health officials reported two new polio cases on Tuesday, bringing the total number of polio cases in Pakistan this year to 26. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health…

APP Peshawar: Another case of polio has been reported in the Kohat district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, raising the total number of cases in the country to 23 this year. The National Institute of Health (NIH) confirmed that a ten-month-old…

APP Islamabad: A first group of children received polio vaccinations in besieged Gaza on Saturday, ahead of the official start of a much-anticipated United Nations-led campaign set to begin Today (Sunday). Children at Nasser Hospital…

News Desk Karachi: On the first day of a special polio vaccination drive in Karachi, 27 percent of parents refused to vaccinate their children, as reported by officials from the Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI).  The campaign,…

News Desk Dadu: The polio virus has been detected in environmental samples from the Masan Mohalla area of Dadu, Sindh, official sources confirmed on Tuesday.    This is the first time this year that the virus has been identified in…

APP Hyderabad: The regional reference laboratory for polio eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) Islamabad has confirmed the detection of poliovirus in environmental samples from Hyderabad and Jamshoro districts this…

News Desk  Islamabad: The polio virus has been confirmed in a one-and-a-half-year-old child from Union Council Hasanzai Urban-II in district, Balochistan.  This recent case has increased the total number of polio cases in Pakistan for…

News Desk  Islamabad:Deputy Commissioner (DC) Islamabad, Irfan Nawaz Memon has chaired a meeting and reviewed the arrangements  for the ongoing anti-polio drive in the Federal Capital.  The city's polio campaign has entered its…

News Desk Rawalpindi: The special anti-polio campaign kicked off in Rawalpindi on Monday, targeting 886,877 children under the age of 5 for vaccination.  This seven-day initiative follows recent reports of poliovirus presence in the…

News Desk  Islamabad: Ayesha Raza Farooq, the Prime Minister's focal person on polio, called on all sectors of society to contribute to eliminating the poliovirus from the country.  Speaking to a PTV news channel, she announced the…