Cases detected in Jacobabad, Malir and Dera Ismail Khan
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan has reported four new cases of poliovirus as an outbreak of the disease continues to expand, the country’s polio programme said on Tuesday, with health officials appealing to parents to get their children vaccinated against the crippling disease.
A laboratory for polio eradication at the National Institute of Health in Islamabad confirmed the detection of wild poliovirus type 1 in two children in the Jacobabad district and one child in Malir district of the Sindh province and one more in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Dera Ismail Khan district, bringing the nationwide tally to 32 this year.
In a statement, Ayesha Raza Farooq, the prime minister’s focal person for polio eradication, urged parents and caregivers to fulfill their duty and ensure their polio vaccination when polio teams visit their homes from October 28 in a nationwide campaign to vaccinate more than 45 million children. “This should be a wake-up call for all parents and communities. Every paralytic polio case means there are hundreds of children who are silently affected by poliovirus and are potentially carrying and spreading it throughout their communities,” she said.
“Today, every child is at risk, and it is unfortunate that children are facing the real consequences of missing vaccination because of misguided decisions and misperceptions about the vaccine,” she said.PM Shehbaz again promises enhanced security measures for Chinese nationals
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