Jun 2, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The polio-virus found to be vanished in most parts of the country in recent tests of the sewage samples, quoting sources ARY News reported on Wednesday.
According to sources, 93 percent sewage samples collected from four provinces of the country found clear of the polio-virus.
It is second instance in two months when over 90 pct sewage samples are found free from the virus of the crippling disease.
The extensive environmental surveillance established by the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme collects sewage water samples to detect the polio-virus across the country.
The sewage samples were collected and tested in the begining of last month from more than 60 places across the country, sources said.
By Pakistan is no stranger to fighting battles against health emergencies; it has danced an arduous and painfully slow dance with the menace of polio. And now it finds itself, like the rest of.
‘Vaccination only way to fight polio’
Islamabad
April 4, 2021
Islamabad: German ambassador Bernhard Schlagheck has hailed the five-day anti-polio campaign in the country and advocated vaccination as the only solution to the crippling disease.
The government carried out a drive in all 156 districts of the country to administer anti-polio drops to over 40 million children under the age of five amid challenges posed by the intensifying third wave of coronavirus.
Around 285,000 frontline workers participated in it following COVID-19 safety protocols. Happy to see anti-polio drive resuming across Pakistan! Vaccination is the only means to end polio in the country, the German envoy said in a tweet.
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