According to sources, the Regional Reference Laboratory has confirmed the presence of the polio virus in samples collected from 25 districts across the country. The samples were collected from sewage lines between February 3 and 12, and the results revealed the presence of Wild Poliovirus Type 1 in several districts. In Sindh, 13 districts, including […]
According to NEOC, the polio case was reported in Thatta Sindh, bringing the total provincial number in 2025 to four and countrywide to six. Yesterday, the Pakistan Polio Eradication Program, detected two polio cases in the Qambar district in Sindh and Mandi Bahauddin district in Punjab. This brings the total number of polio cases in […]
The new polio case was reported from Sindh’s District Badin and was verified by the lab. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district reported the year’s first case, the Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication. There were 74 polio cases recorded in 2024, the previous year. Of them, one each came from Punjab and Islamabad, while […]
As per details, at Lahore Airport, several Saudi-bound passengers were not issued boarding passes as they failed to present the mandatory polio vaccination certificate, sources revealed. Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours, hundreds of Pakistani Umrah pilgrims were offloaded from flights at airports nationwide for not meeting the requirement. Saudi Arabia has made polio vaccinations […]
As per details, the anti-polio drive will be launched from February 3 to 9. It will target over 4.54 million children across the country. Sources privy to the development said that a three-day campaign with two additional catch-up days will be carried out in general areas of the country. A five-day campaign followed by two […]
The campaign primarily aimed to vaccinate 36,360,037 children, but only 35,712,922 children were successfully vaccinated which indicates that 98 percent of the vaccination target was achieved, the sources said. They added 739,201 children were not available for vaccination during the polio campaign in Pakistan while 71,330 parents refused to allow their children to receive the […]
The National Emergency Operation Centre (NEOC) for Polio Eradication reported that a one-and-a-half-year-old infant in the Chaman district’s Qila Abdullah neighborhood has been affected by polio. The information indicated that this is the seventh case reported from the Kila Abdullah area. In total, Balochistan province has recorded 27 polio cases thus far in the current […]
According to information provided by Adeel Tasawar, the charge of the anti-polio initiative in Punjab, 1.193 million children in Lahore have received the drops. Similarly, in Rawalpindi, 577,000 children were vaccinated against polio. In Multan, 751,000 children received the polio drops. Faisalabad saw 867,000 children vaccinated during this campaign. Adeel Tasawar mentioned that today marks […]
As per details, two individuals in Karachi were arrested for refusing to vaccinate their children against polio. The suspects, identified as Saad Ashraf and his employee Shan, were apprehended by Nazimabad police. Both have been booked under charges of interfering in state matters. The ongoing campaign marks the final polio vaccination drive of the year, […]
The extension came during the meeting of the Emergency Committee of the WHO held on November 6 regarding the international spread of poliovirus at WHO headquarters, according to a statement. The Emergency Committee reviewed the data on wild poliovirus (WPV1) and circulating vaccine-derived polioviruses (cVDPV). The Secretariat presented a report of progress for affected IHR […]
