{"id":66211,"date":"2025-02-22T13:40:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=66211"},"modified":"2025-02-22T13:40:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T08:40:50","slug":"pakistan-reports-3rd-polio-case-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pakistan-reports-3rd-polio-case-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Pakistan reports 3rd polio case of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_18 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_18\">ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported another <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/karachi\/karachi-commissioner-suspends-11-polio-vaccinators-for-negligence\/\">polio virus<\/a> case from Sindh&#8217;s Larkana district on Saturday, making it the third wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_18 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_18\">The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the detection of the polio virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_18 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_18\">&#8220;This is the second polio case reported from Sindh this year, bringing the total number of cases to two in Sindh and one in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,&#8221; a statement from the Pakistan Polio Eradication Programme said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_18 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_18\">Last year in 2024, the country reported a total of 74 cases, out of which 27 were from Balochistan, 22 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 23 from Sindh, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"td_block_wrap tdb_single_content tdi_18 td-pb-border-top td_block_template_1 td-post-content tagdiv-type\" data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_18\">&#8220;The Pakistan Polio Program conducts multiple mass vaccination drives in a year, bringing the vaccine to children at their doorsteps, while the Expanded Program on Immunization provides vaccinations against 12 childhood diseases free of charge at health facilities,&#8221; the press release read.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, the first nationwide polio campaign of 2025 was successfully concluded, with 99% of the targets achieved across the country.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was conducted from February 3 to 9, 2025. During this campaign, more than 45 million children were administered the polio vaccine. A second round of the Big Catch-Up activity is currently underway in the country, to vaccinate children up to 5 years with EPI antigens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Pakistan reported another polio virus case from Sindh&#8217;s Larkana district on Saturday, making it the third wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) case of 2025. The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed the detection of the polio virus. &#8220;This is the second polio case reported from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":64813,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26703,20063],"class_list":["post-66211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-pakistan-polio","tag-polio-case"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66212,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66211\/revisions\/66212"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}