Vaccination for Covid | Political Economy
March 7, 2021 With a routine immunisation coverage of 88 percent, AJK is one region that has remained polio free for the last two decades Visiting Muzaffarabad after 16 years was quite an experience. The last I saw this place was when an earthquake of 7.6 magnitude shook the entire region on October 8, 2005. After nearly 16 years the city seemed stronger. Its social indicators show that too. One of those is its literacy rate of 67 percent among its women compared to the national average of 51 percent. Dr Bushra Shams, the provincial programme manager of Expanded Programme on Immunisation (EP...