{"id":70583,"date":"2025-04-14T10:46:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:46:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=70583"},"modified":"2025-04-14T10:46:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T05:46:46","slug":"who-extends-travel-restriction-on-pakistan-amid-polio-outbreak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/who-extends-travel-restriction-on-pakistan-amid-polio-outbreak\/","title":{"rendered":"WHO extends travel restriction on Pakistan amid polio outbreak"},"content":{"rendered":"

The World Health Organization<\/a> (WHO) has imposed<\/span> travel restrictions to<\/span> Pakistan for an<\/span> additional<\/span> three months,<\/span> owing<\/span> to persistent<\/span> worry<\/span> about polio outbreaks within<\/span> the nation<\/span>.<\/p>\n

It<\/span> has<\/span> come<\/span> after an<\/span> evaluative<\/span> process<\/span> regarding<\/span> the<\/span> spread<\/span> of international<\/span> polio and the<\/span> WHO<\/span> Emergency<\/span> Committee<\/span>‘<\/span>s<\/span> sentiment<\/span> on<\/span> Pakistan’s response<\/span> to the polio<\/span> virus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While<\/span> some<\/span> improvements<\/span> have<\/span> been<\/span> made<\/span>, Pakistan and Afghanistan remain<\/span> the<\/span> most<\/span> serious<\/span> threats<\/span> to international<\/span> polio eradication<\/a> as<\/span> both countries have<\/span> been<\/span> confirmed<\/span> as<\/span> having<\/span> transmitted<\/span> poliovirus internationally<\/span>.<\/p>\n

The WHO has<\/span> articulated<\/span> worry<\/span> about<\/span> the troubling<\/span> increase<\/span> of<\/span> polio-positive environmental samples in Pakistan, which<\/span> has<\/span> reportedly<\/span> increased<\/span> twelve<\/span> times<\/span> between 2023 and 2024 since<\/span> reporting<\/span> 628 polio-positive environmental samples in<\/span> the nation<\/span> with districts newly<\/span> affected by wild poliovirus.<\/p>\n

The<\/span> key<\/span> provinces affected<\/span> including Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh, and Balochistan, are struggling with the YB3A4A B-cluster of polio<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Majorities<\/span> of<\/span> cities<\/span> such<\/span> as<\/span> Quetta<\/span>, Peshawar, and Karachi<\/span> have become major<\/span> centers<\/span> for wild poliovirus type \u00a0(WPV1), which is reportedly<\/span> spreading<\/span> into<\/span> areas central<\/span> of the<\/span> nation<\/span> and more<\/span> southern into<\/span> Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.<\/p>\n

While the WHO acknowledges Pakistan’s anti-polio initiations<\/span> and campaign quality, Pakistan<\/span> can<\/span> still improve<\/span> the<\/span> situation<\/span> reported<\/span> at provincial and district levels.<\/p>\n

In<\/span> response<\/span> to<\/span> this, the WHO suggests using various techniques including <\/span>\u00a0Improved<\/span> Vaccination: Increase<\/span> vaccination at Pakistan Afghanistan border crossings- Bilateral Cooperation: Enhanced<\/span> cooperation between Pakistan and Afghanistan to stop<\/span> cross-border transmission- Concurrent<\/span> Anti-Polio Campaigns: Joint campaigns in border areas of<\/span> both<\/span> Pakistan<\/span> and<\/span> Afghanistan<\/span> to limit<\/span> the spread of WPV1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The World Health Organization (WHO) has imposed travel restrictions to Pakistan for an additional three months, owing to persistent worry about polio outbreaks within the nation. It has come after an evaluative process regarding the spread of international polio and the WHO Emergency Committee‘s sentiment on Pakistan’s response to the polio virus. While some improvements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":70584,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[27786,13310,27787],"class_list":["post-70583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-pakistan","tag-international-polio-eradication","tag-polio-virus","tag-who-travel-restrictions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70583","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=70583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70585,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70583\/revisions\/70585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}