Over 80 Children Infected With Polio In Afghanistan & Pakistan
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that 81 cases of polio have been recorded in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the beginning of this year.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced that 81 cases of polio have been recorded in Afghanistan and Pakistan since the beginning of this year.
The organisation reported on Monday that 25 cases of polio had been identified in Afghanistan and 56 in Pakistan.
According to the World Health Organisation, two new cases of polio were recorded last week in the cities of Uruzgan and Helmand and one in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan.
According to information published by the World Health Organisation, which provides monthly polio statistics in Afghanistan and Pakistan, six cases of polio were recorded in Afghanistan and six in Pakistan last year.
The Taliban, however, claim that no positive cases of polio have been reported in Afghanistan this year.
Recently, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) announced that from September 2023 to August 2024, 67,752 Afghan children received the polio vaccine with the support of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
