{"id":70117,"date":"2025-04-09T10:11:29","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70117"},"modified":"2025-04-09T10:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T05:11:29","slug":"polio-eradication-drive-2025-to-begin-from-april-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/polio-eradication-drive-2025-to-begin-from-april-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Polio eradication drive 2025 to begin from April 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: A five-day <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/health\/polio-virus-found-in-sewage-sample-of-18-districts\/\">polio eradication campaign<\/a> is set to be launched in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on April 21. The campaign aims at administering polio drops to over 6 million children across the province.<\/p>\n<div>According to the provincial <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-shehbaz-enquiries-after-health-of-president-zardari\/\">health department<\/a>, more than 800,000 children in the capital city of Peshawar will receive the polio vaccine on Tuesday.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>For the purpose, over 30,000 teams have been formed to carry out the campaign, while 50,000 police personnel will be deployed to ensure security during the drive.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Health officials confirmed that one case of polio has been reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa so far this year, underscoring the importance of continued vaccination efforts.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PESHAWAR: A five-day polio eradication campaign is set to be launched in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on April 21. The campaign aims at administering polio drops to over 6 million children across the province. According to the provincial health department, more than 800,000 children in the capital city of Peshawar will receive the polio vaccine on Tuesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":14795,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[27657],"class_list":["post-70117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","tag-polio-eradication-drive-2025"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70117","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70118,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70117\/revisions\/70118"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}